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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

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NICHIA CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,

 v.

SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO.,LTD., et al.,

Defendants /

No. C 06-0162 MMC

ORDER AFFORDING PLAINTIFF

OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPLEMENT

MOTION TO FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER

SEAL

The Court is in receipt of plaintiff’s “Administrative Motion to File Documents Under

Seal,” filed June 15, 2007.

“A sealing order may issue only upon a request that establishes that the document,

or portions thereof, is privileged or protectable as a trade secret or otherwise entitled to

protection under the law.” Civil L.R. 79-5(a). “The request must be narrowly tailored to

seek sealing only of sealable material.” Id.

In support of the instant motion, plaintiff offers the Declaration of Jason M. Julian,

who asserts, inter alia, that fourteen specified exhibits offered in support of plaintiff’s motion

for summary judgment should be filed under seal because “they were designated as

confidential” by plaintiff. (See Julian Decl. ¶ 4.) Such conclusory statement does not

establish that any part of said exhibits is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or

otherwise entitled to protection from public disclosure, let alone that the entirety of each

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such exhibit constitutes sealable material.

Accordingly, the Court will afford plaintiff the opportunity to file, no later than June

27, 2007, a supplemental declaration setting forth, as to each of said fourteen exhibits, an

explanation for plaintiff’s designation, and, specifically, to demonstrate why each such

exhibit, in its entirety or in part, is “privileged or protectable as a trade secret or otherwise

entitled to protection under the law.” See Civil L.R. 79-5(a).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 20, 2007 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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