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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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 1 The holding of this court is limited to the facts and the particular circumstances

underlying the present motion. The court expresses no opinion as to whether the showing made

in the papers submitted would satisfy the sealing requirement of Civil Local Rule 79-5 in the

absence of the special circumstances present in the instant case.

ORDER, page 1

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

EDWARD V. BYRNS, individually, and

as Executor of the ESTATE OF

LUCILLE G. BYRNS, et al.,

Plaintiff,

v.

ENDOVASCULAR TECHNOLOGIES,

INC., and GUIDANT CORP.,

Defendants. __________________________________

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No. CV-03-05494 JF/PVT

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATED

REQUEST TO REMOVE

DOCUMENTS FROM THE

ELECTRONIC FILING SYSTEM

AND TO RE-FILE THE

DOCUMENTS WITH PORTIONS

UNDER SEAL

On February 24, 2006, Defendants filed a Motion to compel responses to Discovery and

for Leave to Re-Open Deposition for Limited purpose.1

 The hearing was held on April 4, 2006. 

The parties agreed to withdraw the portion of the motion relating to the deposition and to remove

from the record all references to that portion of the motion. The parties have informed the court

that a settlement of the entire matter is currently in process. In light of the withdrawal of the

motion and the settlement of the action, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the original versions of the February 24, 2006 motion

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ORDER, page 2

(docket number 73), memorandum of points and authorities in support of the motion (docket

number 74), the declaration in support of the motion (docket number 76), the opposition to the

motion (docket number 78), the reply brief (docket number 84) shall be permanently removed

from the electronic court filing system. The docket entry for document number 76 shall also be

under seal such that the public cannot see any identifying information as to the exhibits filed

with the declaration.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall electronically file redacted versions of

the affected documents and, if Plaintiffs have not already done so, Plaintiffs shall lodge with the

Clerk each entire document in conformance with Civil Local Rule 79-5(c)(3).

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the original transcript of the hearing (docket number

88) shall be removed from the public record and filed under seal and a redacted version of the

transcript be made available to the public. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 8, 2006

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PATRICIA V. TRUMBULL

United States Magistrate Judge

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