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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SUZETTE TIPPITT,

Plaintiff,

v.

TESORO REFINING & MARKETING 

COMPANY LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-03893-RS 

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT 

PREJUDICE ADMINISTRATIVE 

MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL

The parties in this case have filed an administrative motion to file certain documents under 

seal in connection with their summary judgment briefing. As the designating party of the

putatively confidential information, Tesoro bears the burden of pointing to compelling reasons 

justifying sealing and narrowly tailoring its request to target only sealable information. Kamakana 

v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178 (9th Cir. 2006); Civil Local Rule 79-5(b). 

Its submission does not satisfy the second of these requirements. While the need to protect the 

privacy of a defendant’s non-party employee may justify sealing, Tesoro’s request does not merely 

seek to redact sensitive information pertaining to the individual at issue here. Instead, Tesoro 

proposes to excise roughly half of the exhibits submitted in support of plaintiff’s opposition from 

the public record. This overbroad request is denied.

Because certain information targeted by Tesoro’s request is sealable, the administrative 

motion is denied without prejudice. Tesoro is directed to file a renewed sealing request, 

minimizing proposed redactions, no later than one week from the date of this order. The renewed 

request shall include a redacted version of each of the documents at issue. This order does not 

address the merits of Tesoro’s motion for summary judgment.

Case 3:14-cv-03893-RS Document 42 Filed 08/20/15 Page 1 of 2
ORDER DENYING SEALING MOTION

CASE NO. 14-cv-03893-RS

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Northern District of California

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 20, 2015

______________________________________

RICHARD SEEBORG

United States District Judge

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