Loftis v. Washington Teamsters Welfare Trust

Filing 26

ORDER ON REQUEST TO SEAL DOCUMENTS, Signed by Magistrate Judge Sandra M. Snyder on 7/28/2015. (Arellano, S.)

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RUSSELL J. REID (PHV) (WSBA #2560)
THOMAS A. LEAHY (PHV) (WSBA #26365)
REID, McCARTHY, BALLEW & LEAHY, L.L.P.
100 West Harrison Street, North Tower, Suite 300
Seattle WA 98119
Telephone:
[phone]
Fax:
[phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Attorney for Defendants

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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KENNETH LOFTIS, JR.,
No. 1:15-CV-00422-SMS

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Plaintiff,
v.

ORDER TO SEAL DOCUMENTS

WASHINGTON TEAMSTERS WELFARE
TRUST AND DOES 1 through 50, inclusive,
Defendants.

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Good cause appearing and based upon the stipulation of the parties, a review of the
documents in question (A.R. 0001 to A.R. 000117), the Notice of Request to Seal Documents,

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and the Request to Seal Documents:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that pages A.R. 0001 to A.R. 000117 of the Administrative

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Record will be sealed and kept confidential so that only the parties and authorized Court

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personnel can review. That is, these pages should not be available in any publicly available case

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file. This seal order will remain in place throughout the litigation, including through any appeal

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process.
More specifically, pages A.R. 0001 to A.R. 000117 of the Administrative Record contain

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confidential medical information, medical records, and/or documents that relate to medical
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records that contain personal and health information that is subject to protections under federal

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and state law, including, but not limited to, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability

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Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the applicable requirements of the Standards for Privacy of Individually

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Identifiable Health Information and its implementing regulations issued by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (45 C.F.R. Parts 160-164; HIPAA Privacy Regulations), and

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California Civil Code Sections 56 et seq., 1798.29 and 1798.82, which protect the confidentiality

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of individually identifiable personal and health information. Therefore, these pages must be kept

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confidential and filed under seal to protect from public view so only the parties and authorized

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Court personnel will have access to review these pages.
Moreover, these records must be sealed to protect the Defendant’s privacy and to comply

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with federal and state law.
This order is made nunc pro tunc to July 27, 2015.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated:

July 28, 2015

/s/ Sandra M. Snyder
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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