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Kevin H. Moriarty (DC Bar No. 975904) 

Cathlin Tully (NY Bar) 

Shameka L. Walker (DC Bar No. 493891) 

Jarad Brown (CA Bar No. 294516) 

Katherine E. McCarron (DC Bar No. 486335) 

James A. Trilling (DC Bar No. 467273) 

Federal Trade Commission 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail Drop CC-8232 

Washington, DC 20580 

P: (202) 326-2949/F: (202) 326-3062 

kmoriarty@ftc.gov; ctully@ftc.gov; swalker@ftc.gov; 

jbrown4@ftc.gov; kmccarron@ftc.gov; jtrilling@ftc.gov 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC., 

 Defendant. 

CIVIL ACTION NO. 

3:17-CV-00039-JD 

PLAINTIFF FEDERAL TRADE 

COMMISSION’S ADMINISTRATIVE 

MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL 

PORTIONS OF LETTER BRIEF 

Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) hereby moves the Court to issue an 

administrative order that authorizes the filing under seal, pursuant to Civil Local Rules 7-11 and 

79-5(d) and (e), of certain portions of the FTC’s Letter Brief regarding the testimony of Jamie 

Hine (“FTC Letter Brief”). 

The FTC Letter Brief discusses testimony from an investigational hearing and two letter 

submissions from the FTC’s pre-complaint investigation of D-Link Systems, Inc. (“DLS”). In 

providing this information to the FTC, DLS designated it as confidential pursuant to Section 21 

of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 57b-2. The FTC Letter Brief also discusses information from DLink Systems responses to the FTC’s interrogatories, which D-Link Systems has designated as 

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confidential pursuant to the Protective Order Regarding Discovery Materials (Dkt. 80) (May 26, 

2017) (entered by Order Dkt. 83 (June 7, 2017). 

Local Rule 79-5 governs the filing of documents under seal in civil cases. Subsection (d) 

of Local Rule 79-5 sets forth additional procedures that apply when a party seeks to file 

“documents designated as confidential by the opposing party or a Non-Party pursuant to a 

protective order” and provides as follows: 

If the Submitting Party is seeking to file under seal a document 

designated as confidential by the opposing party or a non-party 

pursuant to a protective order, or a document containing 

information so designated by an opposing party or a non-party, the 

Submitting Party’s declaration in support of the Administrative 

Motion to File Under Seal must identify the document or portions 

thereof which contain the designated confidential material and 

identify the party that has designated the material as confidential 

(“the Designating Party”). 

Pursuant to subsection (e)(1) of Local Rule 79-5, the Designating Party then has four days to file 

a declaration establishing that all of the designated material is “sealable” (as defined in Local 

Rule 79-5(b)). 

As “designating party,” D-Link Systems bears the burden of establishing that the 

information identified in the specified text is “sealable.” L.R. 79-5(b). The FTC takes no 

position as to whether this information should remain under seal until such time as DLS provides 

its justifications for the information to be maintained under seal. A declaration of FTC counsel 

and a proposed order granting this motion will be filed concurrently with this motion. 

For the reasons stated above, the FTC’s motion should be granted. 

Dated: September 4, 2018 Respectfully submitted, 

 /s/ Jarad Brown 

Kevin H. Moriarty (DC Bar No. 975904) 

Cathlin Tully (NY Bar) 

Shameka L. Walker (DC Bar No. 493891) 

Jarad Brown (CA Bar No. 294516) 

Katherine E. McCarron (DC Bar No. 486335) 

James A. Trilling (DC Bar No. 467273) 

Federal Trade Commission 

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600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail Drop CC-8232 

Washington, DC 20580 

P: (202) 326-2927/F: (202) 326-3062 

kmoriarty@ftc.gov; ctully@ftc.gov; 

swalker@ftc.gov, jbrown4@ftc.gov; 

kmccarron@ftc.gov; jtrilling@ftc.gov 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission

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