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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Anti-trust

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United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NETLIST, INC.,

Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

DIABLO TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 

Defendant. 

Case No.: 13-cv-5962 YGR 

ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO SEAL 

DKT. NOS. 464, 476, 487, 499 

The parties herein filed administrative motions to seal documents filed in connection with 

post-trial motions as follows: 

1. Diablo’s Motion to Seal portions of its Motion to Enforce Preliminary Injunction Bond and 

evidence in support thereof (Dkt. No. 464) and its reply (Dkt. No. 487); 

2. Netlist’s Motion to Seal its opposition to that motion (Dkt. No. 476); and 

3. Diablo’s Motion to Seal portions of its opposition to Netlist’s Motion for Judgment as a 

Matter of Law and for a New Trial (Dkt. No. 499). 

The Court has carefully considered the motions and supporting evidence and orders that the 

Motions to Seal are GRANTED for the reasons that follow. 

A. Papers Submitted In Connection With Motion To Enforce Preliminary Injunction Bond 

Since the motion for enforcement of the preliminary injunction bond is not a dispositive 

motion, the motions to seal documents submitted in connection with the motion and opposition 

apparently would be submit to the lower good cause standard. See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass'n,

605 F.3d 665, 678 (9th Cir. 2010). Regardless, Diablo has established that the matters it seeks to 

seal in connection with the motion and reply, and as cited in the opposition by Netlist, are all 

properly subject to sealing, even under the higher “compelling reasons” standard. The information is 

highly confidential, not publicly available, and is sensitive information that would hurt Diablo if 

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revealed to its competitors. Moreover, the matters to be sealed are narrowly tailored only to those 

portions that are required to protect the confidential information. 

Therefore, the Court ORDERS that the following are properly filed under seal: 

 the statements redacted from Diablo’s brief in support of its Motion to Enforce the 

Preliminary Injunction Bond; 

 the statements redacted in the Declaration of Jeffrey McMullen (Exhibit A1); 

 Exhibits A-2 and A-3 to the McMullen Declaration in their entirety; 

 the statements redacted from Netlist’s Opposition brief in opposition to the Motion to 

Enforce the Preliminary Injunction Bond; and 

 the statements redacted from Diablo’s brief in support of the Motion to Enforce the 

Preliminary Injunction Bond. 

B. Diablo’s Opposition to Netlist’s Motion for JMOL and a New Trial 

The Court finds that Diablo has established compelling reasons to seal the information 

redacted from its opposition brief and Appendix A in support thereof. As a preliminary matter, the 

information sought to be redacted is information as to which the Court ordered the courtroom to be 

sealed during trial. Further, the parties have established that the information is highly confidential 

and/or sensitive business and financial information that would put them at a competitive 

disadvantage if publicly disclosed. 

This order does not disturb or modify any of the Court’s rulings made at trial concerning 

sealing of these or any other documents or testimony. 

This Order terminates Dkt. Nos. 464, 476, 487, 499.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Date: September 1, 2015 

____________________________________ 

YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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