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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CORINA MAREZ, as guardian ad litem, et 

al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

COUNTY OF STANISLAUS, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 1:14-CV-00662-KJM-SKO 

ORDER 

On its own motion, the court orders all documents and accompanying exhibits —

ECF Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 14, 15 — revealing the names of the minor plaintiffs in this action to be 

sealed. L.R. 141(a); Phillips ex rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210–

11 (9th Cir. 2002). 

Local Rule 140 requires that initials be used to identify minors “when federal or 

state law requires the use of initials, or when the specific identify of the minor is not necessary to 

the action or individual document.” L.R. 140(a)(i) (emphasis in original). The Federal Rules of 

Civil Procedure in turn require that “the name of an individual known to be a minor . . . may 

include only . . . the minor’s initials . . . .” FED. R. CIV. P. 5.2(a)(3); Allstate Life Ins. Co. v. Dall, 

No. 2:07-cv-02264, 2009 WL 3806310, at *1 n.1 (E.D. Cal. Nov. 12, 2009) (“[A]s prescribed in 

Rule 5.2, Counsel shall . . . us[e] only ‘the minor's initials.’”). Here, several of the plaintiffs are 

“known to be . . . minor[s],” and although some of the subject documents and exhibits are “the 

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record of a court or tribunal . . . that . . . was not subject to the redaction requirement when 

originally filed,” the minors’ privacy provides good cause for redaction. FED. R. CIV. P. 

5.2(b)(3)–(4). Only initials should be used to identify these plaintiffs. 

As set forth above, the specified documents are SEALED. The parties are 

ORDERED to file versions of the sealed documents identifying the minor plaintiffs by only their 

initials within one business day of the filing of this order. Counsel for both parties are further 

ORDERED to show cause within seven days of the filing of this order why they should not be 

sanctioned in the amount of $250.00 each for failing to comply with Local Rule 140 and Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: June 13, 2014. 

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