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Nature of Suit Code: 535
Nature of Suit: Habeas Corpus - Death Penalty
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Ptn for Writ of H/C - Stay of Execution

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN MICHAEL BEAMES,

Petitioner,

v.

RON DAVIS, Warden of San Quentin State

Prison,

Respondent.

Case No. 1:10-cv-01429-DAD-SAB

DEATH PENALTY CASE

ORDER GRANTING PETITIONER’S 

REQUEST TO FILE DOCUMENT UNDER 

SEAL 

(Doc. No. 219)

Before the Court is petitioner’s September 8, 2016 notice of request and request to file 

under seal his reply to respondent’s post-hearing brief on claim 11. Petitioner states that the 

reply brief should be sealed because it discusses confidential information contained in 

respondent’s sealed brief on claim 11 (see Doc. Nos. 213, 215) and is covered by the court’s 

October 29, 2015 sealing order relating to a Confidential 987 Transcript (see Doc. No. 145). 

Respondent has not opposed petitioner’s sealing request and the time for doing so has 

passed. See Local Rule 141(c). 

Accordingly, for good cause shown, it is hereby ORDERED that petitioner’s request for a 

sealing order (Doc. No. 219) is GRANTED as follows: 

1. The Clerk of the Court is directed to file under seal petitioner’s reply to 

respondent’s post-hearing brief on claim 11 totaling twenty-seven (27) pages,

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2. The foregoing document and the information therein constitutes confidential 

information which shall not be disclosed, in whole or part, to any person other 

than the court and court staff and individually named counsel for the parties for 

their use solely in connection with litigation of the habeas petition pending before 

this court, 

3. No publicly filed document shall include the above document and/or the 

information therein unless authorized by the court to be filed under seal, and 

4. All provisions of this order shall continue to be binding after the conclusion of 

this habeas corpus proceeding and specifically shall apply in the event of a retrial 

of all or any portion of petitioner’s criminal case, except that either party 

maintains the right to request modification or vacation of this order upon entry of 

final judgment.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 12, 2016 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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