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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS' MOTION TO FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL—No.

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

E-FILED on 2/8/10

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

THE MISSING LINK, INC., d/b/a BATH

PLUS INC. and JEFFREY MARKS,

individually and on behalf of others similarly

situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

EBAY, INC.,

Defendant.

No. C-07-04487 RMW

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS' MOTION

TO FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL

[Re Docket No. 96]

Plaintiffs, The Missing Link, Inc. and Jeffrey Marks, move to file Exhibit G of Plaintiffs'

Renewed Motion To Compel Discovery Responses under seal. Exhibit G contains excerpts of

defendant eBay, Inc.'s supplemental responses and objections to plaintiffs' first set of interrogatories. 

Plaintiffs move to seal Exhibit G in its entirety. 

A request to seal must establish that the document, or portions thereof, is privileged or

protectable as a trade secret or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. N.D. Cal. Civ. R. 79-

5(a). The request must be narrowly tailored to seek sealing only of sealable material. Id. Having

reviewed the contents of Exhibit G, the court finds that portions of Exhibit G are not privileged or

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protectable as trade secrets. Plaintiffs have not narrowly tailored their request to seek sealing only

of sealable material. 

On January 29, 2010, defendant eBay, Inc. ("eBay") submitted a public version of the

supplemental responses in Exhibit G, with selected excerpts redacted. See Docket No. 102-2. The

court finds that the redacted portions of the supplemental responses contain highly sensitive aspects

of eBay's business operations. 

Though plaintiffs have not demonstrated good cause to seal Exhibit G in its entirety, the

court finds good cause to seal the selected excerpts of the supplemental responses that eBay redacted

in its January 29, 2010 filing. Accordingly, the court grants plaintiffs' motion to file under seal these

selected excerpts in Exhibit G and denies the motion in all other respects. The court orders Missing

Link to file a public version of Exhibit G with the sealed excerpts redacted. 

DATED: 2/8/10

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to:

Counsel for Plaintiff:

Edward S. Zusman ezusman@mzclaw.com

Frank Jablonski frankj@progressivelaw.com

Ilan J. Chorowsky ichorowsky@gmail.com

Kevin K. Eng keng@mzclaw.com

Noah Shube nshube@yahoo.com

Counsel for Defendants:

Michael G. Rhodes rhodesmg@cooley.com

Heather C. Meservy hmeservy@cooley.com

Joseph S. Leventhal leventhaljs@cooley.com

Sarah R. Boot sboot@cooley.com

Whitty Somvichian wsomvichian@cooley.com

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not

registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated: 2/8/10 CCL

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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