Crosthwaite et al v. Wimmer

Filing 30

DIRECTIONS TO CLERK TO REMOVE EXHIBIT FROM FILE; DIRECTIONS TO PLAINTIFFS. The Court directs the Clerk of the Court to remove from the file Exhibit A to the Declaration of Theresa L. Bradley. Plaintiffs are ordered to file in the public record, no la ter than September 26, 2008, a properly-redacted version of Exhibit A to the Declaration of Theresa L. Bradley. If plaintiffs fail to timely comply, the Court will not consider said exhibit in ruling on plaintiffs' motion for default judgment. Signed by Judge Maxine M. Chesney on September 11, 2008. (mmclc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/11/2008)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 For the Northern District of California 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Plaintiffs assert that Exhibit A establishes certain amounts that defendants owe plaintiffs under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. The social security numbers of the third parties identified in Exhibit A have no bearing on such issue.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GIL CROSTHWAITE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. TERRENCE WAYNE WIMMER, et al., Defendants /

No. C-08-0034 MMC DIRECTIONS TO CLERK TO REMOVE EXHIBIT FROM FILE; DIRECTIONS TO PLAINTIFFS

United States District Court

On August 19, 2008, plaintiffs electronically filed the Declaration of Theresa L. Bradley in Support of Motion for Default Judgment, attached to which is Exhibit A. Exhibit A includes the entire social security number of numerous individuals, each of which is a third party to the instant action. Plaintiffs, by filing Exhibit A in the public record, have violated Civil Local Rule 317(a), which prohibits a party from filing an individual's entire social security number. Where it is necessary to include an individual's social security number in a filing, "only the last four digits of that number should be used." See Civil L.R. 3-17(a)(1). Here, the Court can ascertain no purpose to plaintiffs' filing even the last four digits of any social security number.1 Nevertheless, to the extent plaintiffs were of the view that such numbers have

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some relevance to plaintiffs' motion for default judgment, plaintiffs should not have filed Exhibit A without first redacting the document as is required by the Civil Local Rules of this District. In order to protect the privacy of the subject third parties, the Court hereby DIRECTS the Clerk of the Court to remove from the file Exhibit A to the Declaration of Theresa L. Bradley. Further, plaintiffs are hereby ORDERED to file in the public record, no later than September 26, 2008, a properly-redacted version of Exhibit A to the Declaration of Theresa L. Bradley. If plaintiffs fail to timely comply, the Court will not consider said exhibit in ruling on plaintiffs' motion for default judgment. IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 11, 2008

MAXINE M. CHESNEY United States District Judge

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