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Nature of Suit Code: 375
Nature of Suit: False Claims Act
Cause of Action: 31:3729 False Claims Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

JOHN MUIR HEALTH, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 13-cv-01924-SI (JCS)

ORDER REGARDING 

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO FILE 

UNDER SEAL

Re: Dkt. No. 78

Good cause showing, Plaintiff-Relator’s administrative motion to file under seal (dkt. 78)

is GRANTED. In addition to the material that Plaintiff-Relator has redacted and requested to seal, 

however, the Court notes that the first page of the document at issue also contains PlaintiffRelator’s unredacted social security number,

1

and a taxpayer identification number that appears to 

correspond to a non-party individual. Such identifying information is protected by Rule 5.2(a) of 

the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The Court has therefore sealed docket entries 76-4 and 78-3 

sua sponte. Plaintiff-Relator is instructed to file a revised redacted version of that document, with 

the above mentioned identification numbers redacted,2no later than September 1, 2016. If 

Plaintiff-Relator fails to do so, the Court will not consider the document at issue.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 25, 2016

______________________________________

JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

 

1 Although Rule 5.2(h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that a person waives 

protection of his or her own identifying information by filing it without redaction, the Court, in an 

abundance of caution, grants Plaintiff-Relator an opportunity to redact her social security number 

if she wishes to do so.

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It is unclear whether the “TIN” included on the final two pages of the document is an 

individual’s taxpayer identification number. If it is, that must be redacted as well.

Case 3:13-cv-01924-SI Document 81 Filed 08/25/16 Page 1 of 1