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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 

EASTERN DIVISION 

ALEXIS PARKER and LATISHA RHODES, 

individually and on behalf of others similarly 

situated, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

IAS LOGISTICS DFW LLC d/b/a Pinnacle 

Logistics, 

 Defendant. 

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 Case No. 1:20-cv-05103 

 

 

 Judge Ronald A. Guzman 

DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO MAINTAIN DOCKET NOS. 154 AND 155 UNDER SEAL 

OR, ALTERNATIVELY, TO REDACT PORTIONS OF DOCKET NOS. 154 and 155 

Pursuant to N.D. Ill. L.R. 5.8, Defendant, IAS Logistics DFW d/b/a Pinnacle 

Logistics (“Defendant”), through its attorneys, hereby files this Motion to Maintain Docket 

Nos. 154 and 155 under seal, or, alternatively, to redact portions of those documents, and 

in support states: 

On or around November 2021, Plaintiffs served notice of a non-party subpoena to 

produce documents on non-party Worldwide Flight Services, Inc. (“WFS”) relative to its 

acquisition of Pinnacle. Counsel for the parties thereafter met and conferred to resolve 

issues related to the non-party subpoena. On November 16, 2021, Plaintiffs’ counsel agreed 

to treat as confidential information certain non-public terms relative to the acquisition of 

Pinnacle by WFS. See November 16, 2021 email correspondence from David Fish to Lisa 

Handler Ackerman appended hereto as Exhibit 1. Based upon the agreement, Pinnacle 

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provided the information to Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs did not subsequently challenge or contest 

the confidentiality of the information provided. 

The public interest in open court records does not always override the interests of 

litigants; public interest can be outweighed by the latters’ privacy interests. Citizens First 

National Bank of Princeton v. Cincinnati Ins. Co., 178 F.3d 943, 945 (7th Cir. 1999). Such 

is the case here. Pinnacle disclosed to Plaintiffs’ non-public confidential information 

related to its acquisition solely based upon Plaintiffs’ agreement to maintain the 

confidentiality of the information. Nonetheless, Plaintiffs publicly filed the information 

without requesting a release of confidentiality from Pinnacle. 

Specifically, in Plaintiffs’ Response in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion for Entry 

of a Protective Order (ECF #154 at page 14) and the Declaration of Nicholas Conlon (ECF 

#155 at page 3), Plaintiffs’ quote from the email correspondence in which Pinnacle relayed 

the confidential information. The release of information includes confidential commercial 

and financial information of non-parties, which information Pinnacle and the non-parties 

have taken steps to protect from disclosure, including securing Plaintiffs’ agreement to 

maintain the confidentiality of the information. The terms of this Court’s existing 

Confidentiality Order (ECF #142), require maintaining the confidentiality of the 

information improperly published by defense counsel on (ECF #154 and 155). Accordingly, 

Docket Nos. 154 and 155 should be sealed or stricken and substituted with the redacted 

public versions of the documents appended hereto as Exhibits 2 and Exhibit 3. 

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Respectfully submitted, 

IAS Logistics DFW LLC d/b/a Pinnacle Logistics, 

Defendant 

By: /s/ Lisa Handler Ackerman 

 One of its attorneys 

Lisa Handler Ackerman 

Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP 

55 West Monroe Street, Suite 3800 

Chicago, Illinois 60603 

Telephone: (312) 821-6144/Facsimile: (312) 704-1522 

lisa.ackerman@wilsonelser.com 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on February 11, 2022, a copy of the attached was filed electronically 

with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system and that a true and correct copy was served 

on all parties by CM/ECF Electronic Notification. 

/s/ Lisa Handler Ackerman 

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