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Parties Involved:
Anthony Marc Mostajo
Plaintiff
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Defendant
Elaine Quedens
Plaintiff

Document Text:

ORDER GRANTING NATIONWIDE’S REQUEST TO SEAL 

2:17-cv-00350-JAM-AC

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JAMES J. OH (admitted pro hac vice)

AMARDEEP K. BHARJ (admitted pro hac vice)

KATHLEEN BARRETT (admitted pro hac vice)

EPSTEIN BECKER & GREEN, P.C.

227 W. Monroe Street, Suite 3250

Chicago, IL 60606

Telephone: 312.499.1400

Facsimile: 312.845.1998

joh@ebglaw.com

abharj@ebglaw.com

kbarrett@ebglaw.com

PAUL DECAMP

EPSTEIN BECKER & GREEN, P.C.

1227 25th Street, N.W., Suite 700

Washington, D.C. 20037

Telephone: 202.861.1819

Facsimile: 202.861.3571

PDeCamp@ebglaw.com

DANIEL W. SRSIC (admitted pro hac vice)

LITTLER MENDELSON P.C.

Fifth Third Center

21 East State Street, 16th Floor

Columbus, OH 43215

Telephone: 614.463.4201

Facsimile: 614.221.3301

dsrsic@littler.com

Counsel for Defendant

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANTHONY MARC MOSTAJO, ET AL.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, ET AL.,

Defendants.

Case No.: 2:17-cv-00350-JAM-AC

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

REQUEST TO SEAL AND REDACT

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS AND 

INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION 

FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION AND APPROVAL OF CLASS NOTICE, APPOINTMENT OF CLASS REPRESENTATIVES, CLASS COUNSEL, AND 

CLAIMS

ADMINISTRATOR

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Having considered the Request to Seal and Redact Documents in Support of the Opposition 

to Plaintiff’s Motion For Class Certification And Approval Of Class Representatives, Class Counsel, And Claims Administrator (the “Request to Seal”) of Defendant Nationwide Mutual Insurance 

Company (“Nationwide”), Defendant’s Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion For Class Certification 

And Approval Of Class Representatives, Class Counsel, And Claims Administrator (the “Class 

Certification Opposition”), and the other papers and pleadings on file herein, this Court hereby 

finds that there are compelling reasons to GRANT the Request to Seal as set forth herein:

1. The following documents which Nationwide submitted with its Request to Seal Documents, shall be permanently sealed and available only to the attorneys of record, the 

parties, and the Court (and its authorized personnel):

• Payroll records attached to the Declaration of Lisa Hughes (“Hughes 

Decl.”) (Ex.10 to Nationwide’s Compendium of Evidence in Opposition to 

Plaintiff’s Motion For Class Certification And Approval Of Class Representatives, Class Counsel, And Claims Administrator (“Nationwide’s 

COE”)) 

o Elaine Quedens Payroll Records (Hughes Decl., Ex. A-2);

o Patti Smith Payroll Records (Id. Ex. B-2);

o Joel Canto Payroll Records (Id. Ex. C-2);

o Linda Lawrence Payroll Records (Id. Ex. D-2);

o Yer Lor Payroll Records (Id. Ex. E-2);

o Karen Nicholson Payroll Records (Id. Ex. F-2);

o Ronald Hill Payroll Records (Id. Ex. G-2);

o Stefani Lavitt Payroll Records (Id. Ex. H-2);

o Pamela Lewis Payroll Records (Id. Ex. I-2); and

o James Ryan Payroll Records (Id. Ex. J-2).

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2. The following documents which Nationwide submitted with its Request to Seal Documents may be filed on the public docket with redactions as set forth in the Request to 

Seal, and the unredacted versions shall be permanently sealed and available only to the 

attorneys of record, the parties, and the Court (and its authorized personnel):

• Declaration of James “Andrew” Aspegren (Ex. 2 to Nationwide’s COE);

• Declaration of Darlene Braasch (Ex. 3 to Nationwide’s COE);

• Declaration of Adrian Filip (Ex. 4 to Nationwide’s COE);

• Declaration of Lola Hogan (Ex. 5 to Nationwide’s COE);

• Declaration of Grace Iannotti (Ex. 6 to Nationwide’s COE);

• Declaration of Ronald Lommen (Ex. 7 to Nationwide’s COE);

• Declaration of John Parker (Ex. 8 to Nationwide’s COE);

• Declaration of Carol Tramison (Ex. 9 to Nationwide’s COE) (Exs. 2 through 

9 to Nationwide’s COE are collectively referred to herein as the “Supporting Declarations”);

• Exhibits D and H to the Declaration of James Oh in support of the Class 

Certification Opposition (The “Oh Decl.” attached as Ex. 1 to Nationwide’s 

COE): 

o Exhibit D: Deposition Exhibit 16 to the transcript of Angela 

Hagerty, and

o Exhibit H: Excerpts from the deposition transcript of Pamela 

Lewis.

Within seven days of entry of this Order, Nationwide shall submit to the Clerk copies of 

all of the documents encompassed by this Order for filing under seal pursuant to Local Rule 

141(e)(2).

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ____1/30/2020___________________

/s/ John A. Mendez

HON. JOHN A. MENDEZ.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

JUDGE

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