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Nature of Suit Code: 160
Nature of Suit: Stockholder's Suits
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Securities Violation

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM RELIEF AND 

RETIREMENT SYSTEM,

Plaintiff,

v.

REED HASTINGS, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 18-cv-02107-BLF 

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S 

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO 

SEAL

[Re: ECF 36]

On August 24, 2018 Plaintiff filed an administrative motion to file under seal portions of 

its Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss. ECF 36. Plaintiff states that the portion sought 

to be sealed has been designated as confidential by Nominal Defendant Netflix, Inc. (“Netflix”). 

Laughlin Decl. ¶ 3, ECF 36-1. 

Parties moving to seal documents must comply with the procedures established by Civil 

Local Rule 79-5. Under the Local Rules, “[w]ithin 4 days of the filing of the Administrative 

Motion to File Under Seal, the Designating Party must file a declaration as required by subsection 

79-5(d)(1)(A) establishing that all of the designated material is sealable.” Civ. L.R. 79-5(e)(1). 

Accordingly, Netflix’s declaration as the Designating Party was due on or before August 28, 2018. 

Netflix has not filed the requisite declaration within the allowable time. Because Netflix

has not established that the information in the document submitted by Plaintiff warrants sealing, 

Plaintiff’s administrative motion to seal is hereby DENIED.

For any request that has been denied because the party designating a document as confidential 

or subject to a protective order has not filed a responsive declaration providing sufficient reasons to 

seal, the submitting party (here, Plaintiff) must file the unredacted documents into the public record no 

earlier than 4 days and no later than 10 days from the filing of this Order. See Civ. L.R. 79-5(e)(2).

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 30, 2018

______________________________________

BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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