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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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28 1 The holding of this court is limited to the facts and the particular circumstances

underlying the present motion.

ORDER, page 1

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

DAVID HALTERMAN,

Plaintiff,

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EMC CORPORATION,

Defendant.

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Case No.: C 04-2660 JW (PVT)

ORDER RE STIPULATED REQUEST

TO FILE UNDER SEAL EXCERPTS

OF DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO

COMPEL

On June 21, 2005, the parties filed a Stipulation and [Proposed] Order to File Under Seal

Excerpts of Defendant’s Motion to Compel an Independent Medical Examination and Further

Deposition of Plaintiff Pursuant to Civ. L.R. 7-11, 7-12, & 79-5.1 Based on said stipulation, the

documents sought to be filed under seal, and the file herein, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the request to file under seal is GRANTED as to the

portions of Defendant’s motion that disclose private medical information about Plaintiff, and

DENIED as to the portions of Defendant’s motion that disclose only non-private information

regarding Plaintiff’s allegations of depression and emotional distress. The latter information has

already been disclosed by the Plaintiff in his publicly-filed complaint herein. While the complaint

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document, should indicate that the document is redacted.

ORDER, page 2

does not detail all of the specifics of Plaintiff’s alleged emotional distress, those specifics are not

inherently more private or sensitive than Plaintiff’s public allegations that he was under a doctor’s

care for depression and taking medication (First Amended Complaint, 12:2-3), that he has suffered

severe emotional distress (First Amended Complaint, 20:10-11), and that he has and continues to

suffer severe embarrassment, humiliation and mental anguish (First Amended Complaint, 24:9-10).

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the clerk of the court shall file under seal the unredacted

originals of 1) Defendant EMC Corporation’s Notice of Motion and Motion, and Memorandum of

Points and Authorities, in Support of Motion to Compel (“Defendant’s Motion to Compel”); 2) the

Declaration of Michael Weil in Support of Defendant’s Motion to Compel (“Weil Declaration”); and

3) the Declaration of John A. Zeitz, M.D. in Support of Defendant EMC Corporations’s Motion to

Compel Mental Examination and Answers to Deposition Questions (“Zeitz Declaration”).

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, no later than July 1, 2005, Defendant shall electronically

file corrected redacted2 versions of the aforementioned documents with only the following portions

redacted:

1) From Defendant’s Motion to Compel: 3:22-24; 11:14-27; 12:10; 12:15; 17:8-

9; and 19:7.

2) From the Weil Declaration: Ex. B, pp. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 195, 196, 307, 309,

and 311; Ex. C, pg. 3, ¶ 2; Ex. H, pg. 1, ¶ 3 through pg. 2, ¶ 3; Ex J, in whole;

and Ex. K, in whole.

3) From the Zeitz Declaration: 2:24-25 (in ¶ 5); and 5:19-20 (in ¶ 14).

Dated: 6/28/05

 /s/ Patricia V. Trumbull 

PATRICIA V. TRUMBULL

United States Magistrate Judge

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