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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:1 Antitrust Litigation

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For the Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE: CATHODE RAY TUBE (CRT)

ANTITRUST LITIGATION

 

This document relates to:

ALL ACTIONS 

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Master File 

No. CV-07-5944 SC

MDL No. 1917

ORDER DENYING

DEFENDANTS'

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION

TO FILE CONFIDENTIAL

DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL

Defendants Panasonic Corporation of North America, Panasonic

Corporation, and MT Picture Display Co., Ltd. ("Defendants")

brought an Administrative Motion pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-

5(d) and the Stipulated Protective Order of June 18, 2008, seeking

to file certain documents under seal. ECF No. 880 ("Mot."). 

Specifically, Defendants request permission to file under seal

Defendants' Motion for Sanctions Pursuant to Rule 11, the

Declaration of Jeffrey Kessler in Support of Defendants' Motion

for Sanctions Pursuant to Rule 11, and Exhibits A through Q

attached thereto. Id. Defendants contend that these documents

should be filed under seal because they contain information

designated as confidential by Defendant Chungwa Picture Tubes,

Ltd. ("Chungwa"). Id. at 2.

Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) provides that a party who wishes to

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1 Defendants state that the Motion and supporting declaration

should be filed under seal because they "contain information"

designated confidential by Chungwa. Mot. at 2. This language

suggests that only select portions of the documents Defendants seek

to file are sealable. If this is true, then Defendants should

lodge with the Court a redacted version of the documents to be

placed in the public record in accordance with Civil Local Rule 79-

5(d).

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file a document that has been designated confidential by another

party pursuant to a protective order, or who wishes to refer in a

memorandum or other filing to information so designated by another

party, must file an administrative motion for a sealing order with

the Court and lodge the document, memorandum, or other filing with

the Court. If only a portion of the document, memorandum, or

other filing is sealable, the submitting party must also lodge

with the Court a redacted version to be placed in the public

record if the Court approves the requested sealing order. Id.

The designating party -- in this case Chungwa -- then has seven

days to preserve the information's confidentiality by filing and

serving a "declaration establishing that the designated

information is sealable" and "a narrowly tailored proposed sealing

order." Id. "If the designating party does not file its

responsive declaration as required by this subsection, the

document or proposed filing will be made part of the public

record." Id. 

Here, Defendants have not lodged with the Court the Motion

and supporting declaration they wish to file under seal,1 and

Chungwa has not filed the required declaration and narrowly

tailored proposed sealing order. Defendants' Administrative

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Motion to file documents under seal is therefore DENIED. The

Court will STAY this Order for fifteen days so that the parties

may take appropriate measures to comply with the Civil Local

Rules.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 31, 2011

 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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Dated: March ___, 2009

 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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