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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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NOT FOR CITATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

EDUARDO CECENA and MARIA CECENA,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY and

DOES 1-100,

Defendants. /

No. C05-03178 JF (HRL)

INTERIM ORDER RE REQUESTS FOR

SEALING

On December 21, 2006, this court held an expedited hearing on plaintiffs’ three motions

for sanctions against defendant Allstate Insurance Company (“Allstate”). In the course of

briefing those motions, the parties requested that certain documents should be sealed. 

Plaintiffs’ counsel has e-filed several documents which Allstate says comprise its confidential

information. He has also submitted a host of other documents with the apparent intent that they

be sealed in their entirety.

Although the court recognizes that this matter was briefed on an expedited schedule,

neither party appears to have followed Civil Local Rule 79-5, which governs requests to have

documents filed under seal. Additionally, it does not appear that sealing is warranted as to all

documents. For instance, some of the submitted exhibits appear to be copies of court orders and

other publicly available material. Nevertheless, pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, and no

*E-FILED ON 12/22/06*

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later than December 29, 2006, a party who claims that any of the submitted material is

confidential shall (1) specifically identify each document for which sealing is requested; and (2)

file declaration(s) from competent person(s) establishing that sealing is, in fact, warranted as to

each particular document.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

 

HOWARD R. LLOYD

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

December 22, 2006

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5:05-cv-3178 Notice will be electronically mailed to: 

Michael A. Barnes mbarnes@sonnenschein.com, msaplala@sonnenschein.com 

Sonia Renee Martin smartin@sonnenschein.com, clakes@sonnenschein.com;

msaplala@sonnenschein.com 

John A. Shepardson johnshepardson@hotmail.com 

Jessica Lou Woelfel jwoelfel@sonnenschein.com, ddonner@sonnenschein.com 

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel who have

not registered for e-filing under the court’s CM/ECF program.

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