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Nature of Suit Code: 375
Nature of Suit: False Claims Act
Cause of Action: 31:3729 False Claims Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

YANCY CUMMINGS, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

MARY E. BRANTLEY HALE,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-04723-JCS 

ORDER SEALING EXHIBIT

Re: Dkt. Nos. 53-14, 53-15

Rule 5.2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that certain material, including 

the birth date of any person and the name of an individual known to be a minor, must be redacted 

from documents publicly filed in federal court. Exhibit 19 to the declaration of Jason Hain, which 

appears in the record at docket entries 53-14 and 53-15, includes repeated instances of the name 

and birth date of Relator Yancy Cummings’s minor daughter K.C. The Court hereby SEALS 

those docket entries sua sponte in order to protect the privacy of K.C. Under the circumstances of 

this case, where the exhibit at issue consists of medical records of a minor, the Court will allow 

this exhibit to remain under seal in its entirety, without requiring Cummings to file a redacted 

version.

The Court notes that this is the second occasion on which Relator’s counsel has failed to 

comply with Rule 5.2. See dkts. 13, 15.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 28, 2017

______________________________________

JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

Case 3:15-cv-04723-VC Document 57 Filed 02/28/17 Page 1 of 1