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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 05:704 Labor Litigation

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RUSSELL J. REID (PHV) (WSBA #2560)

THOMAS A. LEAHY (PHV) (WSBA #26365)

REID, McCARTHY, BALLEW & LEAHY, L.L.P.

100 West Harrison Street, North Tower, Suite 300

Seattle WA 98119

Telephone: (206) 285-0464

Fax: (206) 285-8925

E-mail: rjr@rmbllaw.com

Attorney for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KENNETH LOFTIS, JR.,

Plaintiff,

v.

WASHINGTON TEAMSTERS WELFARE 

TRUST AND DOES 1 through 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

No. 1:15-CV-00422-SMS

ORDER TO SEAL DOCUMENTS

Good cause appearing and based upon the stipulation of the parties, a review of the 

documents in question (A.R. 0001 to A.R. 000117), the Notice of Request to Seal Documents, 

and the Request to Seal Documents:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that pages A.R. 0001 to A.R. 000117 of the Administrative 

Record will be sealed and kept confidential so that only the parties and authorized Court 

personnel can review. That is, these pages should not be available in any publicly available case 

file. This seal order will remain in place throughout the litigation, including through any appeal 

process.

More specifically, pages A.R. 0001 to A.R. 000117 of the Administrative Record contain 

confidential medical information, medical records, and/or documents that relate to medical 

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records that contain personal and health information that is subject to protections under federal 

and state law, including, but not limited to, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability 

Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the applicable requirements of the Standards for Privacy of Individually 

Identifiable Health Information and its implementing regulations issued by the U.S. Department 

of Health and Human Services (45 C.F.R. Parts 160-164; HIPAA Privacy Regulations), and 

California Civil Code Sections 56 et seq., 1798.29 and 1798.82, which protect the confidentiality 

of individually identifiable personal and health information. Therefore, these pages must be kept 

confidential and filed under seal to protect from public view so only the parties and authorized 

Court personnel will have access to review these pages.

Moreover, these records must be sealed to protect the Defendant’s privacy and to comply 

with federal and state law. 

This order is made nunc pro tunc to July 27, 2015.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 28, 2015 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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