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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Bobbi Lee Felix,

 Plaintiff,

vs.

United States of America,

 Defendant.

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No. CV-11-01203-PHX-PGR

 

 ORDER

 

Having reviewed Defendant’s Motion to File Under Seal (Doc. 73), the

Court finds that it should be denied without prejudice notwithstanding that the

plaintiff’s response (Doc. 78) to the motion states that she has no objection to the

motion.

The defendant seeks to file under seal two exhibits to the Statement of

Facts it filed in support of its Motion for Summary Judgment. The Ninth Circuit

has made it clear that the party seeking to seal an attachment to a summary

judgment motion bears the burden of overcoming the strong presumption in favor

of public access to judicial records by articulating “compelling reasons supported

by specific factual findings ... that outweigh the general history of access and the

public policies favoring disclosure.” Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu,

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447 F.3d 1172, 1178-79 (9th Cir.2006). The cursory, one-sentence reason

advanced by the defendant for the requested sealing, which is that “[s]aid exhibits

were produced by the Customs and Border Patrol agency and are considered to

contain non-public, confidential information[,]” patently fails to satisfy the

“compelling reasons” standard. Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED that Defendant’s Motion to File Under Seal (Doc. 73) is

denied without prejudice.

DATED this 29th day of August, 2012.

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