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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:15 Antitrust Litigation

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SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

A Limited Liability Partnership

Including Professional Corporations

GARY L. HALLING, Cal. Bar No. 66087

MICHAEL, W. SCARBOROUGH, Cal. Bar No. 203524

TYLER M. CUNNINGHAM, Cal. Bar No. 243694

Four Embareadero Center, 17th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111-4109

Telephone: 415-434-9100

Facsimile: 415-434-3947

Email: hallin she ardmullin.com

mscarborough ,sheppardmullin.com

KING & SALLOW

ALAN L. MARX (admitted pro hcac vice)

STEVEN C. DOUSE (admitted pro hac vice)

1100 Union Street Plaza

315 Union Street

Nashville, Tennessee 37201

Telephone: 615-259-3456

Facsimile: 615-726-5413

Email: amarx cukin ballow.com

sdouse(a)kingballow.conn

Attorneys for Defendants

MEDIANEWS GROUP, INC. and

CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS PARTNERSHIP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

Case No. 06-CV-04332-SI

[Complaint Filed: July 14, 2006]

V. [PROPOSED] ORDER RE SEALING OF

MEDIANEWS AND CNP

MEDIANEWS GROUP, INC.; THE INFORMATION SUBMITTED WITH

HEARST CORPORATION; STEPHENS PLAINTIFF'S OPPOSITION TO

GROUP INC.; GANNETT CO., INC.; and DEFENDANTS' MOT10N FOR

CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS SUMMARY JUDGMENT

PARTNERSHIP,

Trial Date: April 30, 2007

CLINTON REILLY,

Plaintiff,

Date: April 6, 2007

Defendants. Time: 3:30 p.m.

Place: Courtroom 10, 19th Floor

Judge: Hon. Susan Illston

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Pursuant to an administrative motion to seal by plaintiff Clinton Reilly and a

sealing order entered by the Court on March 27, 2007, certain documents submitted in

connection with Defendants` Motion for Summary Judgment Based on Plaintiffs Lack of

Standing have been filed under seal. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, MediaNews

Group, Inc. ("MediaNews") and California Newspapers Partnership ("CNP") submitted the

declaration of the President of MediaNews, Joseph Lodovic, IV, requesting that certain

discrete portions and pages of these previously sealed documents remain under seal.

After due consideration of the papers submitted, the arguments of counsel,

and good cause appearing therefor, the Court HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

The Court finds compelling reasons to maintain the documents and excerpts

of documents specifically addressed in the Lodovic Declaration (the "Subject Documents")

under seal. The Court finds that the Subject Documents contain information that was

prepared not for public consumption but to analyze the proposed acquisition of the

McClatchy newspapers and to negotiate a single equity investment by Hearst. These

documents contain detailed non-public financial information about MediaNews and/or

CNP, including valuations of certain company assets, projections for future earnings, pro

forma financial information, results of operations broken down by individual newspapers

and information about the company°s current and future business plans. MediaNews and

CNP do not publicly disclose information of this nature.

The Court finds that disclosure of the Subject Documents to the general

public could be harmful to MediaNews and its investors in several ways. Competitors who

are not subject to the sort of confidentiality and limited use agreements in place between

MediaNews, The Hearst Corporation ("Hearst"), Gannett Co., Inc. („Gannett") and

Stephens Group, Inc. ("Stephens"), could capitalize on such data to identify future business

plans and strengths and weaknesses in MediaNews operations; and adjust their own

business plans accordingly to better compete with MediaNews. Further, disclosure of

valuation data could harm MediaNews in future sales negotiations, as it gives potential

buyers and sellers a virtual roadmap to the methods and formulas MediaNews employs to

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value such properties. Also, it is possible that public dissemination of the Subject

Documents might mislead investors and necessitate further filings with the Securities and

Exchange Commission to correct any misapprehensions.

The Court finds that the trade secret and privacy interests of MediaNews and

CNP in the Subject Documents far outweigh any public interest in accessing such

documents to evaluate the basis for any judicial action in this case, and such interests will

be prejudiced if this information is not maintained under seal. Notwithstanding the general

preference for public access to court records, allowing these documents to remain under

seal will further important public policies. The Court thus finds compelling reasons to

maintain the Subject Documents under seal.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the following documents shall

be maintained permanently under seal:

a. Declaration of Daniel R- Shulman in Opposition to Defendants'

Motion for Summary Judgment Based on Plaintiffs Alleged Lack of Standing ("Shulman

MSJ Decl.") Exhibit 3, page HEARST097643.

b. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 11, pages SG10009394-9405,

except the three lines following the third main bullet point on page SGI0009396, beginning

"The acquisition ..." and ending with " ... CNP's competitive position."

C. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 14, page GCNP002078, the fourth

and fifth paragraphs; and the two lines for "San Jose" and "Contra Cost" in the chart on

page GCNP002079.

d. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 14, pages GCNP002080-81.

C. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 18, the last two paragraphs on

page GCNP006097 through the first three paragraphs on page GCNP006098.

f Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 18, page GCNP006100, all charts

except the upper right chart labeled "Circulation/Audience."

g. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 18, pages G CNP006102-04.

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h. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 18, page GCNNP006106, all charts

except the upper right chart labeled "Circulation/Audience."

i. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 18, pages GCNP006108-11.

j. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, the third paragraph on page

GCNP005937 through the last paragraph on page GCNP005938; all portions of page

GCNP005939 except the two charts and the last sentence of the second to last paragraph,

beginning, "At the Gannett ..."; and page GCNP005940.

k. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, page GCNP005943, except the

bottom five shaded lines.

1. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, page GCNP005947, all charts

except the upper right chart labeled "Circulation/Audience."

M. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, pages GCNP005949-51.

n. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, pages GCNP005952-55.

o. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, page GCNP005957, all charts

except the upper right chart labeled "Circulation/Audience."

Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, pages GCNP005959-61.

Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 19, pages GCNP005962-65; and

page GCNP005967.

r. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 20, pages GCNP003071-73.

S. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 20, page GCNP003076, except the

bottom five shaded lines.

t. Shulman MSJ Decl. Exhibit 21, 94:22 - 96:20; 98:5-8; 100:18 -

108:6; and 109:14 - 113:7.

U. Memorandum of Plaintiff in Opposition to Defendants' Motion

for Summary Judgment Based on Plaintiffs Alleged Lack of Standing ("MSJ

Memorandum"), page 16, line 11, beginning "This evidence. . ." through line 20, ending

11 ...out in 2006.° (Exhibit 325)"

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court's March 27, 2007 Scaling Order

is hereby VACATED. Plaintiff shall file redacted copies of his MSJ Memorandum and the

supporting Shulman MSJ Declaration as necessary to comply with this ORDER and any

other sealing orders entered with respect to these documents.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

ZION. SUSAN ILLSTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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