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Parties Involved:
Crossroads Systems, Inc.
Counter-claimant
Quantum Corporation
Counter-defendant

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

QUANTUM CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,

 v.

CROSSROADS SYSTEMS, INC,

Defendant. /

No. C 14-04293 WHA

ORDER RE PENDING MOTIONS

TO FILE UNDER SEAL

On May 22, plaintiff filed an administrative motion to file under seal portions of its

discovery letter and Exhibit D thereof, which contained three pages of testimony detailing the

products currently configured in defendant’s laboratory and the amount of time required to set up

certain products for testing in that laboratory, which defendant had designated confidential. 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, Crossroads had four days to file a declaration establishing that

the designated information is sealable. No such declaration was timely filed. Plaintiff’s

administrative motion is DENIED.

On May 27, defendant filed an administrative motion to file under seal portions of its

responsive discovery letter and portions of Exhibits C and D thereof, which contained

information regarding the brands of products that are and are not available for testing in

defendant’s laboratory, information about a privately branded product that has been identified in

numerous unsealed documents in this litigation, including some filed by Crossroads, and the

pecuniary costs and the loss of downtime that would be incurred by Crossroads if it were to

modify its lab environment in response to Quantum’s requested inspections. Crossroads’s

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supporting declaration offers only the fact that “[t]his financial information is confidential to

Crossroads” as justification for filing these documents under seal. No good cause is shown to

justify sealing these documents. Defendant’s administrative motion is DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 2, 2015. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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