Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings

Opinion

1 WILLIAM S. FREEMAN (SBN 82002) MANOHAR RAJU (SBN 193771) wfreeman@aclunc.org Public Defender 2 SEAN RIORDAN (SBN 255752) MATT GONZALEZ (SBN 153486) sriordan@aclunc.org Chief Attorney 3 ANGÉLICA SALCEDA (SBN 296152) GENNA ELLIS BEIER (CA SBN 300505) asalceda@aclunc.org genna.beier@sfgov.org 4 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION EMILOU H. MACLEAN (CA SBN 319071) FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN emilou.maclean@sfgov.org 5 CALIFORNIA FRANCISCO UGARTE (CA SBN 241710) 39 Drumm Street francisco.ugarte@sfgov.org 6 San Francisco, CA 94111 OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER Telephone: (415) 621-2493 SAN FRANCISCO 7 Facsimile: (415) 255-8437 555 Seventh Street San Francisco, CA 94103 8 Attorneys for Petitioners-Plaintiffs Direct: 415-553-9319 Additional Counsel Listed on Following Page Fax: 415-553-9810 9

10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 11 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

13 ANGEL DE JESUS ZEPEDA RIVAS, CASE NO. 3:20-CV-02731-VC BRENDA RUIZ TOVAR, LAWRENCE 14 MWAURA, LUCIANO GONZALO JOINT [PROPOSED] SEALING MENDOZA JERONIMO, CORAIMA ORDER RE ALL BAIL 15 YARITZA SANCHEZ NUÑEZ, JAVIER APPLICATIONS ALFARO, DUNG TUAN DANG, 16 Petitioners-Plaintiffs, 17 v. 18 DAVID JENNINGS, Acting Director of the 19 San Francisco Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; MATTHEW T. 20 ALBENCE, Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director 21 of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; U.S. IMMIGRATION AND 22 CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; GEO GROUP, INC.; NATHAN ALLEN, Warden of Mesa 23 Verde Detention Facility,

24 Respondents-Defendants.

25 26 27 1 BREE BERNWANGER* (NY SBN 5036397) MARTIN S. SCHENKER (SBN 109828) bbernwanger@lccrsf.org mschenker@cooley.com 2 TIFANEI RESSL-MOYER (SBN 319721) COOLEY LLP tresslmoyer@lccrsf.org 101 California Street, 5th Floor 3 HAYDEN RODARTE (SBN 329432) San Francisco, CA 94111 hrodarte@lccrsf.org Telephone: (415) 693-2000 4 LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR Facsimile: (415) 693-2222 CIVIL RIGHTS OF 5 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA TIMOTHY W. COOK (Mass. BBO# 688688)* 131 Steuart St #400 tcook@cooley.com 6 San Francisco, CA 94105 FRANCISCO M. UNGER (Mass. BBO# Telephone: (415) 814-7631 698807)* 7 funger@cooley.com JUDAH LAKIN (SBN 307740) COOLEY LLP 8 judah@lakinwille.com 500 Boylston Street AMALIA WILLE (SBN 293342) Boston, MA 02116 9 amalia@lakinwille.com Telephone: (617) 937-2300 LAKIN & WILLE LLP Facsimile: (617) 937-2400 10 1939 Harrison Street, Suite 420 Oakland, CA 94612 11 Telephone: (510) 379-9216 Facsimile: (510) 379-9219 12 JORDAN WELLS (SBN 326491) 13 jwells@aclusocal.org STEPHANIE PADILLA (SBN 321568) 14 spadilla@aclusocal.org AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 15 FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1313 West Eighth Street 16 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Telephone: (213) 977-9500 17 Facsimile: (213) 977-5297

18 Attorneys for Petitioners-Plaintiffs *Admitted Pro Hac Vice 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1 Pursuant to the Court’s Order granting the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction 2 (ECF 35), the Court has directed that members of the provisionally certified class submit 3 individual applications for release from immigration detention on bail and that Defendants 4 respond to such applications. In order to properly consider each application, the Court is 5 requiring the applicant to submit information that includes sensitive and highly personal 6 information and Defendants may also submit such information in response. Such sensitive 7 information includes (1) particularly sensitive personal medical information;(2) the address and 8 telephone number(s) of persons who are proposed as custodians of an applicant in the event of 9 the applicant’s release; (3) juvenile criminal information; and (4) other personally identifiable 10 information as set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(a) of the applicant and of third 11 parties. 12 As to this information, the Court finds that there is good cause to protect the information 13 from being released to the public to protect the applicants from “annoyance, embarrassment [or] 14 oppression ….” Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c)(1); Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665 (9th 15 Cir. 2010); see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2(a). 16 Moreover, the Court finds that it is in the interests of efficiency and conservation of the 17 resources of the parties and the Court to permit Plaintiffs and Defendants to file these 18 applications and responses under seal without the necessity of filing an administrative motion 19 pursuant to Civ. L. R. 79-5(d)(1) to accompany each such application. 20 21 [PROPOSED] ORDER 22 Accordingly, for good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 23 1. Plaintiffs may file bail applications on behalf of individual class members under seal to 24 protect from public disclosure the material described in the following paragraph of this 25 Order, without the necessity of filing an individualized motion to seal pursuant to Civ. L. 26 R. 79-5(d)(1)(A) in support of each bail application. 27 1 2. Defendants may file responses to bail applications of individual class members under seal 2 to protect from public disclosure the material described in the following paragraph of this 3 Order, without the necessity of filing an individualized motion to seal pursuant to Civ. L. 4 R. 79-5(d)(1)(A) in support of each bail application. 5 3. The following categories of information are sealable material within the meaning of Civ. 6 L. R. 79-5(d)(1)(A): 7 a. Any particularly sensitive medical information concerning the applicant; 8 b. The addresses and telephone numbers of persons who are proposed as custodians of 9 an applicant in the event of the applicant’s release; 10 c. Juvenile criminal information; and 11 d. Other personally identifiable information as set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 12 Procedure 5.2(a) of the applicant and of third parties. 13 14 IT IS SO ORDERED. 15 16 . Dated this 7thday of May 2020 Ln 17 VINCE CHHABRIA 18 United States District Judge 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 [PROPOSED] SEALING ORDER RE BAIL APPLICATIONS