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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Patent Infringement

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

Acella Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, 

Defendant. 

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No. CV 10-1780-PHX-JAT

ORDER

Plaintiff Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation (“Medicis”) has filed a Motion for

Leave to File Under Seal its Counterstatement of Material Facts and Statement of Additional

Material Facts and Exhibits 1 (Exhibt H only), 2 (Exhibits A and B only), 3, 6, and 9. (Doc.

254.) Medicis also filed a Motion for Leave to File Excess Pages in Support of its

Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Acella’s Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. 257.)

Regarding the Motion to Seal, the Court starts with a strong presumption in favor of

public access to court records. Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 331 F.3d 1122, 1135

(9th Cir. 2003). A party that wants to seal any part of a dispositive motion must overcome

this strong presumption with compelling reasons for sealing. Kamakana v. City and County

of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1179 (9th Cir. 2006). To seal any part of non-dispositive

motion, a party still must demonstrate good cause. Id. at 1180.

The Court finds, based on its prior ruling on Acella’s Motion to Seal and Medicis’s

pending Motion to Seal, that Plaintiff has demonstrated compelling reasons for sealing its

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Counterstatement of Material Facts and Statement of Additional Material Facts and Exhibits

1 (Exhibt H only), 2 (Exhibits A and B only), 3, 6, and 9. The Court therefore will grant the

Motion to File Under Seal. 

The Court further finds good cause for granting Medicis’s page extension request.

The Court therefore will grant that Motion and will allow Medicis to file its twenty-one page

Opposition.

Accordingly,

IT IS ORDERED GRANTING Plaintiff Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation’s

Motion for Leave to File Under Seal. The Clerk shall file under seal the documents currently

lodged at Docket 255.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED GRANTING Plaintiff Medicis Pharmaceutical

Corporation’s Motion for Leave to File Excess Pages in Support of its Memorandum of Law

in Opposition to Acella’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 257). The Clerk shall file

into the record the documents currently lodged at Dockets 252 and 253.

DATED this 8th day of September, 2011.

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