Stevenson v. San Francisco County Jail Medical Services

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ORDER granting 22 Administrative Motion to File Under Seal. (Illston, Susan) (Filed on 4/20/2018)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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CHARLES L. STEVENSON,
Plaintiff,

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Re: Dkt. Nos. 17, 18, 22, 23
PRATT, et al.,
Defendants.

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United States District Court
Northern District of California

ORDER

v.

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Case No. 17-cv-00336-SI

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A.

Defendants’ Request To Seal Documents

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Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment in this pro se prisoner’s civil rights

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action alleging claims concerning plaintiff’s medical care. In support of their motion, defendants

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submitted copies of plaintiff’s medical records and requested that those medical records be sealed.

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Upon due consideration, defendants’ request to file the medical records under seal is GRANTED.

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Docket No. 22. Defendants have demonstrated that the confidential information in the documents,

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if disclosed to the general public, may intrude on plaintiff’s medical privacy interests.

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Accordingly, the documents identified as Exhibits A-D (Docket No. 22-2) will be filed under seal

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and not available for inspection by the public absent a court order permitting such inspection. See

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N.D. Cal. L. R. 79-5.
If defendants have not yet done so, they must send a copy of Exhibits A-D to plaintiff no

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later than May 1, 2018.

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B.

Plaintiff’s Miscellaneous Filings

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Plaintiff has filed several documents marked as “declaration of plaintiff & additional

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complaints.” Docket Nos. 17, 18, 23. It is not clear what plaintiff intends to accomplish with

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these documents as some mention facts in this case, and some complain about other wrongs he

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suffered at the jail at the hands of different people at different times than alleged in this action.

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Some of the discussions in the documents do not make sense to the court. Some of the discussions

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appear to concern events that occurred before plaintiff saw defendant nurse practitioner John Poh -

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- and events that apparently occurred at a different branch of the San Francisco County Jail.
This action concerns only plaintiff’s allegations against defendants John Poh and Dr. Pratt

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concerning the acts and omissions alleged in the amended complaint filed on April 28, 2017. If

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plaintiff wants to assert claims against other persons for other wrongs committed against him, he

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should file a new civil rights action asserting his claims against those persons. A copy of the

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court’s civil rights complaint form is attached for his convenience. He should not put the case

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United States District Court
Northern District of California

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number for this case on any new civil rights complaint he files.

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Plaintiff is reminded that his opposition to the motion for summary judgment is due on
May 11, 2018.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: April 20, 2018
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SUSAN ILLSTON
United States District Judge

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