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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 25:1901 Indian Child Welfare Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EFRIM RENTERIA and TALISHA 

RENTERIA,

Plaintiff,

v.

REGINA CUELLAR,

Defendant.

No. 2:16-cv-01685-MCE-AC

ORDER

On November 28, 2016, Plaintiffs Efrim and Talisha Renteria filed a transcript of a 

state court guardianship proceeding along with a Request for Judicial Notice. ECF 

No. 87. That transcript identified minors who are at the center of this lawsuit by name. 

In response, Defendant Regina Cuellar filed a Request for Striking and Removing that 

transcript. ECF No. 88. Plaintiffs then filed a redacted version of the transcript and a 

Request to Seal the unredacted version. ECF Nos. 91–92.

The proper procedure is not to place the unredacted version under seal, but to 

strike it from the record. See CBS, Inc. v. United States Dist. Court, 765 F.2d 823, 825–

26 (9th Cir. 1985) (concluding that an “improvidently filed” document “should be removed 

from the record”). Under Local Rule 140(a)(i), the minors’ names should have been 

redacted from the document, and thus the unredacted transcript was improvidently filed.

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Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court shall permanently 

remove and delete Exhibit A to Plaintiffs’ Request for Judicial Notice. ECF No. 87-1.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 29, 2016

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