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Parties Involved:
Jairo Acosta
Defendant
City of Los Banos
Defendant
Tan Lam
Plaintiff

Document Text:

ALLEN, GLAESSNER, HAZELWOOD & WERTH, LLP

180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1200

San Francisco, California 94104

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DALE L. ALLEN, JR., State Bar No. 145279

dallen@aghwlaw.com

PHILIP J. DOWNS, JR., State Bar No. 302939

pdowns@aghwlaw.com

ALLEN, GLAESSNER, HAZELWOOD & WERTH, LLP

180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1200

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 697-2000

Facsimile: (415) 813-2045

Attorneys for Defendants

CITY OF LOS BANOS and JAIRO ACOSTA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TAN LAM, as successor-in-interest to 

Decedent SONNY LAM (“aka” Son Tung 

Lam) and individually,

Plaintiffs,

v.

CITY OF LOS BANOS, a municipal 

corporation; JAIRO ACOSTA, 

individually and in his official capacity as 

Police Officer for the CITY OF LOS 

BANOS; and DOES 2-50,

Defendants.

Case No.: 2:15-cv-00531-MCE-KJN

DEFENDANTS’ RE-SUBMITTED REQUEST 

TO SEAL DOCUMENTS AND ORDER 

GRANTING REQUEST TO SEAL PURSUANT 

TO L. R. 141, BATES DOCS NO.’S 719 – 766, & 

768 – 776, INCLUSIVE

Hon. Chief Judge Morrison C. England

Trial: January 9, 2017

I. INTRODUCTION 

With instructions provided by Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman’s legal clerk, 

Defendants resubmit this Request to Seal documents numbered as BATES “COLB (Lam) 719 –

766” & “COLB (LAM) 768 – 776”, inclusive. This Request is submitted pursuant to E.D. L.R. 

Rule 141, and in accordance with the Parties’ stipulated Protective Order signed by Magistrate 

Judge Kendall J. Newman. 

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II. FACT BACKGROUND 

Defendants produced the documents “719 -766” on March 30, 2016 to plaintiff’s counsel 

Ms. Melissa Nold, in person. Defendants produced to Plaintiff’s counsel, via email and mail, a 

copy of documents “768 – 776”. Copies of the same are submitted along with this request.

Defendants met and conferred with counsel on April 4, 2016, and again on April 7, 2016. 

Defendants informed counsel that Defendants intended to request those records be sealed. 

Defendants asked whether counsel had any objections. Counsel did not. (Declaration of Philip 

Downs).

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III. REQUEST TO SEAL 

Defendants propose and request that BATES documents attached herein be sealed in order 

to prevent the sensitive, personal subject matter contained therein from being viewed by the 

public. Further, sealing these documents preemptively will obviate the need for the Parties to later

request leave of court to file documents under seal as attached exhibits to, e.g., to moving papers

on an ad hoc basis. Defendants wish to avoid dealing with possible, mistaken public disclosure of 

such sensitive subject matter after the error has occurred. Therefore, Defendants request the Court 

order BATES documents “COLB (Lam) 719 – 766” & “COLB (LAM) 768 – 776”, inclusive, be 

sealed.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: April 7, 2016 ALLEN, GLAESSNER,

HAZELWOOD & WERTH, LLP

By: /s/ Philip J. Downs, Jr.

DALE L. ALLEN, JR.

PHILIP J. DOWNS, JR.

Attorneys for Defendants

CITY OF LOS BANOS and JAIRO ACOSTA

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 12, 2016

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