Dykes v. Ayers

Filing 164

Order Regarding Confidentiality of Settlement Materials. Signed by Judge Vince Chhabria on 4/2/2024. (vclc3, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 4/2/2024)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ERNEST EDWARD DYKES,

Case No. 11-cv-04454-SI (VC)

Plaintiff,
v.
MICHAEL MARTEL, et al.,

ORDER REGARDING
CONFIDENTIALITY OF
SETTLEMENT MATERIALS

Defendants.
The Alameda County District Attorney recently provided records to counsel for Dykes.
There are questions about whether these records should remain confidential. Until this Court is
able to determine the answer to these questions, counsel for Dykes is ordered not to use or
disclose these records to anyone outside the context of Dykes’ own challenge to the lawfulness
of his confinement. If Dykes wishes to use the records in a court filing, he must seek to file the
records and any description of them under seal, in accordance with the rules of the applicable
court.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: April 2, 2024
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VINCE CHHABRIA
United States District Judge