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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:501 Copyright Infringement

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MICROSOFT CORPORATION,

Plaintiff, 

v. 

A&S ELECTRONICS, INC., ET AL., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 15-cv-03570-YGR 

ORDER DENYING ADMINISTRATIVE 

MOTION TO REMOVE INCORRECTLY FILED 

DOCUMENT; DIRECTING PARTIES TO 

REVIEW SEALING RULES AND SUPPLEMENT 

MOTIONS TO SEAL

Dkt. No. 103 

Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation filed a version of its Supporting Statement in Support of 

Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment at Docket No. 94 in this matter. That document was 

subsequently locked at Microsoft’s request as filed in error. Microsoft then filed a redacted 

version of the document at Docket No. 102. 

The motion (Dkt. No. 103) to remove Docket No. 94 is DENIED. The document is and 

shall remain locked on the docket due to the filing error. 

The correct way to cure this filing error was to make an administrative motion to seal the 

unredacted version of the separate statement, so that both a redacted/public version and a 

complete, unredacted version of the separate statement are part of the Court’s records. Microsoft 

is ORDERED to cure this error by filing a properly supported Motion to Seal no later than October 

28, 2016. 

The Court further notes that Microsoft’s administrative motion to seal in filed in 

connection with its pending motions for summary judgment (Dkt. No. 80) failed to provide 

sufficient support for sealing all the materials sought to be sealed. Likewise, the administrative 

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motion to seal filed by A&S Electronics (for information designated by both Microsoft and A&S) 

failed to provide sufficient support. (Dkt. No. 96.) 

The Civil Local Rules require that a motion to seal include: 

A declaration establishing that the document sought to be filed under seal, or 

portions thereof, are sealable. Reference to a stipulation or protective order that 

allows a party to designate certain documents as confidential is not sufficient to 

establish that a document, or portions thereof, are sealable.

Civ. L.R. 79-5 d(1)(A) (emphasis supplied). The Rules go on to provide that, if a party submits a 

document for filing under seal that was designated as confidential by the opposing party, the 

designating party must file a declaration in establishing that the document should be filed under 

seal within four days of the filing of the Administrative Motion to File Under Seal. Civ. L.R. 79-

5(e)(1). Here, non-moving designating parties failed to file declarations within four days and the 

declarations submitted with the moving papers are inadequate. In either situation, the declarations 

must provide a basis for sealing that meets that standard applicable to the underlying motion, in 

this case the higher “compelling reasons” standard applicable to motions for summary judgment. 

 Therefore, each attorney for each party is ORDERED to submit a declaration indicating that 

they have reviewed and understand the Civil Local Rule 79-5. Further, each party shall submit 

any supporting declarations necessary to meet the standard for sealing any documents they have 

designated for sealing in connection with the pending motions to seal. These supplementary 

materials are due no later than October 28, 2016. Failure to provide sufficient support of sealing 

will result in denial of the motion to seal. 

 This terminates Docket No. 103. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: October 26, 2016 

______________________________________ 

 YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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