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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 31:3729 False Claims Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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NOT FOR CITATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

UNITED STATES ex rel. DONNA M.

McLEAN and THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

ex rel DONNA M. McLEAN,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C05-01962 HRL

INTERIM ORDER RE SANTA CLARA

COUNTY’S REQUEST TO FILE

DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL

[Re: Docket No. 133]

In connection with relator’s motion to dismiss (Docket #117), the County submitted to

the court excerpts from certain depositions as Exhibits A-C to the Declaration of Melissa

Kiniyalocts in Support of Defendants’ Opposition to Relator’s Motion for Summary Judgment

(Docket #132). It now requests that those exhibits be filed under seal because certain portions

reference child-dependency proceedings concerning relator’s minor children. Upon review of

those exhibits, the court is not convinced that those exhibits disclose any more than that which

has already been disclosed by relator in her publicly filed pleadings in other litigation; and,

many of the pages submitted for sealing do not appear to contain any information about

relator’s children or those proceedings. Nevertheless, the court is willing to seal any truly

confidential information concerning relator’s children which may be contained in the submitted

exhibits.

*E-FILED 4/30/2008*

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Accordingly, relator shall promptly identify for the County those pages which she

claims contain any confidential information concerning her children. No later than May 16,

2008, the County shall re-submit its sealing request to include only those pages which actually

contain such information.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: ________________________________

HOWARD R. LLOYD

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

April 30, 2008

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5:05-cv-1962 Notice will be electronically mailed to:

Virginia Stewart Alspaugh Virginia_Alspaugh@cmwlaw.net, Linda_Knobbe@cmwlaw.net,

TheAlspaughs@cox.net 

Orley Brandt Caudill , Jr brandt_caudill@cmwlaw.net, christopher_zopatti@cmwlaw.net 

William C. Dresser loofwcd@aol.com 

Melissa R. Kiniyalocts melissa.kiniyalocts@cco.co.scl.ca.us 

Sara McLean sara.mclean@usdoj.gov 

Michael Millen MikeMillen@aol.com 

Richard Augustus Swenson rsloofwcd@aol.com 

Joan Eve Trimble joan_trimble@cmwlaw.net, patricia_inabnet@cmwlaw.net 

Sara Winslow sara.winslow@usdoj.gov, kathy.terry@usdoj.gov

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel who have

not registered for e-filing under the court’s CM/ECF program.

5:05-cv-1962 Notice will be delivered by other means to:

Julia Clayton

Deputy Attorney General

California Attorney General’s Office

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000

San Francisco, CA 94102-7004

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