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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CARLOS CASTRO,

Plaintiff,

 v.

CAL TERHUNE, DIRECTOR, CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, BONNIE G.

GARIBAY, J. BATCHELOR, S.C. WOLHWEND,

A. SCRIBNER, J. STOKES, M. YARBOROUGH,

L. HOOD, C. CAMPBELL, A.M. GONZALEZ, M.

AYALA, E. DERUSHA, C/O ROBERT L. AYERS,

WARDEN, J. MARTINEZ,

Defendants. /

No. C 98-04877 WHA

ORDER DENYING

DEFENDANTS’

ADMINISTRATIVE

REQUEST TO FILE

UNDER SEAL

Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, which remains pending. When they did

so, they filed an accompanying administrative request to file exhibit H to the declaration of

Kenneth T. Roost and a portion of the memorandum of points and authorities in support of the

summary judgment motion under seal (Dkt. No. 314). This request seeks leave to file five

confidential memoranda and a portion of defendants’ brief referencing the memoranda under seal

because “the parties have agreed [they] are subject to the protective order.”

This Court’s order approving the stipulated protective order states that no request for a

sealing order will be allowed on summary judgment motions “unless the movant first shows a

‘compelling reason,’ a substantially higher standard than ‘good cause’” (Dkt. No. 111). 

Defendants’ request is DENIED. Defendants have not provided a compelling reason to seal these

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documents. Defendants are given leave, however, to refile their request — given the sensitive

nature of the subject matter of this case — but must do so by NOON ON AUGUST 30, 2010.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 23, 2010. WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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