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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 20:1400 Civil Rights of Handicapped Child

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

AVERY FLASHER-DUZGUNES, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

TAMALPAIS UNION HIGH SCHOOL 

DISTRICT, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 15-cv-04910-YGR 

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT PREJUDICE 

MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL; GRANTING 

STIPULATION TO FILE FIRST AMENDED 

COMPLAINT; DENYING STIPULATION TO 

CONTINUE CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE 

Re: Dkt. No. 32, 34 

Plaintiffs Avery Flasher-Duzgunes and Nejat Duzgunes have filed their Administrative 

Motion to File Portions of the First Amended Complaint Under Seal. (Dkt. No. 34.) The motion 

is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE to resubmitting the motion and a proposed First Amended 

Complaint (“FAC”), including any exhibits to the complaint, consistent with the stated concerns 

about “sensitive personal and confidential medical information” of the plaintiff. First, the 

complaint itself need only make a short and plain statement of the claim. Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a). To 

the extent that Plaintiffs can state their claim without reciting sensitive and confidential 

information, they should do so. Further, the instant motion to seal did not seek to seal the exhibit 

to the proposed FAC (or the original complaint herein), both of which recount sensitive personal 

and medical information of the type sought to be redacted in the FAC.1

 

Any future administrative motion to seal should take these issues into account. In any 

future motion, Plaintiffs are directed to identify specifically all portions of any document sought to 

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 To protect potential privacy concerns, the Court has administratively “locked” those 

documents on the public electronic docket pending resubmission of the administrative motion to 

seal. 

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be sealed, and to submit a proposed order identifying all portions sought to be sealed individually 

for ruling by the Court. 

The parties also filed a Stipulation for Filing First Amended Complaint and Joint 

Stipulation Requesting Order Continuing Case Management Conference. (Dkt. No. 32.) 

 Plaintiffs are GRANTED leave to file a First Amended Complaint in substantially the form 

submitted with the stipulation. However, Plaintiffs must first resolve the sealing issue before 

filing that First Amended Complaint. 

 The request to continue the case management conference is DENIED. As the parties have 

not offered good cause for continuing the case management conference currently set for June 6, 

2016, and the substance of the FAC is known to defendant, the date remains on calendar and the 

parties shall submit their updated case management conference statement seven days in advance of 

that conference. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 6, 2016 

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YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

United States District Judge 

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