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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Fair Labor Standards

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[PROPOSED] ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S ADMINISTRATIVE MOTIONS TO FILE UNDER SEAL

MALCOLM A. HEINICKE (State Bar No. 194174)

malcolm.heinicke@mto.com 

MARJA-LIISA OVERBECK (State Bar No. 261707)

mari.overbeck@mto.com 

JEFFREY M. OSOFSKY (State Bar No. 268593)

jeff.osofsky@mto.com

MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP

560 Mission Street

Twenty-Seventh Floor

San Francisco, California 94105-2907

Telephone: (415) 512-4000

Facsimile: (415) 512-4077

TERRY E. SANCHEZ (State Bar No. 101318)

terry.sanchez@mto.com

MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP

355 South Grand Avenue

Thirty-Fifth Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071-1560

Telephone: (213) 683-9100

Facsimile: (213) 687-3702

Attorneys for Defendant

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

VLAD TSYN, DANIEL SILBERMANN, 

LORI BAGWELL, and CATHERINE 

HORAN-WALKER individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS, LLC,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-02552-LB

[PROPOSED] ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S 

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTIONS TO FILE 

UNDER SEAL

Judge: Hon. Laurel Beeler

Crtrm.: C

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Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, and good cause and compelling reasons

appearing (see Kamakana v. City & County of Honolulu, 477 F.3d 1172, 1179-80 (9th Cir. 2006)), 

Plaintiff Vlad Tsyn’s Administrative Motions to Seal Records (ECF Nos. 78, 80), filed on 

December 18, 2015, in conjunction with the Declaration of Edward J. Wynne (the “Wynne 

Declaration”) (ECF No. 78-1) and the Declaration of James F. Clapp (ECF No. 80-1) are hereby 

GRANTED as follows:

Per the Declaration of Ruth Vitale (ECF No. 82), Exhibits 8-11 to the Clapp

Declaration and Exhibits 33-34 to the Wynne Declaration contain excerpts from Wells Fargo 

Advisors, LLC’s (“WFA”) Wealth Brokerage Services Supervisory Guide. Ms. Vitale’s

declaration establishes that this Supervisory Guide is proprietary and accessible to and shared with 

only WFA personnel, and that, if disclosed to the public generally, it would reveal the manner in 

which WFA endeavors to comply with its regulatory obligations and could be exploited by WFA’s 

competitors. Specifically, WFA’s competitors would gain insight into WFA’s internal business 

strategies and the ways in which WFA has designed its policies and practices. As Ms. Vitale 

declares, the Supervisory Guide is designed for internal business purposes and is not widely 

circulated or available to individuals outside of WFA. Although Plaintiff has quoted from 

portions of the Supervisory Guide, WFA has requested that the portions of the document not 

quoted remain sealed, asserting that public disclosure of the unquoted content (particularly in its 

entirety), created for internal use, would give third-parties insights into confidential and sensitive 

aspects of WFA’s operations and deprive WFA of its investment in working to develop its internal 

policies and procedures. See Network Appliance, Inc. v. Sun Microsystems Inc., Case No. 07-

06053, 2010 WL 841274, *9 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 10, 2010) (sealing “internal information regarding 

[defendant’s] business strategies and opportunities that were not widely distributed”). 

Per the Declaration of Mari Overbeck (ECF No. 83), Exhibits 13-14 and 18-19 to 

the Clapp Declaration contain excerpts from WFA employee emails. Ms. Overbeck’s declaration 

establishes that portions of these emails were redacted by WFA prior to their production to 

Plaintiff to protect the personal information of current and former WFA employees who have not 

sought to make their identities or personal information known or placed in the public record. The 

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remaining (unredacted) information in these emails contains sensitive employee 

compensation/production data that reveals working month-to-date and year-to-date production 

rates—information that is not generally available to the public and that, if exposed, could reveal 

WFA’s long-term financial projections and market position and general business strategies. The 

Court likewise finds that there is good cause to seal these exhibits. See Nettles v. Farmers Ins. 

Exch., No. 06-5164, 2007 WL 858060, *2 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 16, 2007). 

Other documents cited by Plaintiff in Exhibit 17 to the Clapp Declaration were 

previously sealed by the Court (ECF No. 63), and for the reasons set forth in that prior Order, the 

documents comprising Exhibit 17 to the Clapp Declaration shall remain sealed.

Because the excerpts of other documents cited by Plaintiff in Exhibits 12, 15, and 

16 to the Clapp Declaration do not contain confidential information (see Declaration of Mari 

Overbeck (ECF No. 83)), those excerpts shall remain unsealed and may be filed on the public 

record.

In sum, the exhibits to be sealed include: 

• Exhibit 8 to the Clapp Declaration, WBS Supervisory Guide excerpts

(Bates WF_TSYN0011695-0011703);

• Exhibit 9 to the Clapp Declaration, WBS Supervisory Guide excerpts 

(Bates WF_TSYN0011704-0011707);

• Exhibit 10 to the Clapp Declaration, WBS Supervisory Guide excerpts

(Bates WF_TSYN0011786-0011787);

• Exhibit 11 to the Clapp Declaration, WBS Supervisory Guide excerpts 

(Bates WF_TSYN0011816-0011817);

• Exhibit 13 to the Clapp Declaration, email from Daniel Hilken (Bates 

WF_TSYN001450);

• Exhibit 14 to the Clapp Declaration, January 25, 2010 Email string (Bates 

WF_TSYN0014511-0014512);

• Exhibit 17 to the Clapp Declaration, excerpts from the Gateway Program

(Bates WF_TSYN0016816-7 and WF_TSYN0016816-10);

• Exhibit 18 to the Clapp Declaration, email from Daniel Hilken (Bates 

WF_TSYN0019480);

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• Exhibit 19 to the Clapp Declaration, email from Daniel Hilken (Bates 

WF_TSYN0019722-0019723);

• Exhibit 33 to the Wynne Declaration, WBS Supervisory Guide excerpts 

(Bates WF_TSYN0011704-0011707);

• Exhibit 34 to the Wynne Declaration, WBS Supervisory Guide excerpts 

(Bates WF_TSYN0011707-11709, 11717, 11722-11724, 11728, 11735-

11739, 11741-11742, 11763, 11772, 11816, 11819, 11931).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: _________________ ___________________________________

Honorable Laurel Beeler

United States Magistrate Judge

December 23, 2015

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