Chapman v. City of Lincoln

Filing 8

ORDER signed by Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr on 2/20/15 GRANTING request for redaction of Exhibit. (Manzer, C)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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BYRON CHAPMAN,

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No. 2:15-cv-00270-GEB-EFB

Plaintiff,
v.

ORDER

CITY OF LINCOLN,

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Defendant.

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On February 17, 2015, Plaintiff filed a request “to

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redact plaintiff’s personal/sensitive information (i.e., social

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security number, birth date, driver’s licenses, and telephone

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number) in [E]xhibit A [to] the Complaint that was filed on

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January 30, 2015, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2 and L.R. 140.”

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(Pl.’s Req., ECF No. 5.) A proposed redacted copy of Exhibit A to

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the Complaint is attached to Plaintiff’s request. (ECF No. 5-1.)

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Plaintiff failed to redact the referenced information

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as prescribed in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 and Local

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Rule 140. These rules require the redaction of certain “personal

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data identifiers from all pleadings,” including social security

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numbers and dates of birth. E.D. Cal. R. 140(a). Therefore, what

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Plaintiff requests, in effect, is that the court “substitute[]

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[Plaintiff’s

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original, unredacted] Exhibit A filed with the . . . Complaint.”

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(Pl.’s Proposed Order, ECF No. 6.)

proposed]

redacted

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Exhibit

A

[in

place

of

the

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This request is GRANTED. The Clerk of the Court shall

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delete the present Exhibit A to the Complaint, (ECF No. 2-1), and

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shall attach in its place Plaintiff’s proposed, redacted Exhibit

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A, which is currently docketed as ECF No. 7. See CBS, Inc. v.

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U.S. Dist. Court for the Cent. Dist. of Cal., 765 F.2d 823, 825-

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removed from the record); see also Fine v. Cambridge Int’l Sys.,

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Inc., No. 12cv165 WQH (BGS), 2012 WL 2871656, at *2 (S.D. Cal.

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July 11, 2012) (referencing that motion containing information in

(9th

Cir.

1985)

(ordering

“improvidently

filed”

document

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violation of Rule 5.2 had been “removed from the docket”).

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Dated:

February 20, 2015

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