Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Bel Fuse Inc. et al

Filing 230

ORDER requesting briefing within 5 days from Elec & Eltek (USA) Corp. regarding 220 Motion to Seal. Signed by Judge Whyte on 6/3/10. (rmwlc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/3/2010)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 United United States District Court For the Northern District of California 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 A request to seal must establish that the document, or portions thereof, is privileged or protectable as a trade secret or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. Civ. L. R. 79-5(a). The request must be narrowly tailored to seek sealing of only sealable material. Id. Defendant E&E Magnetic Products Limited ("E&E Magnetic") moves to file under seal a portion of its reply brief for its motion to dismiss as well as Exhibit A to the reply. E&E Magnetic has represented that it seeks to file this material under seal because it has been designated "Confidential Attorneys' Eyes Only" by Eltec & Eltek (USA) Corporation ("E&E USA"). Having reviewed the material that E&E Magnetic seeks to file under seal, the court is unable to ascertain the reason why E&E USA believes the information is confidential. The court therefore requests that E&E USA submit within 5 days an identification of the portions of material that it feels is
ORDER REGARDING MOTION TO SEAL--No. C-07-06222 RMW CCL

E-FILED on

6/3/10

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION

HALO ELECTRONICS, INC., Plaintiff, v. BEL FUSE INC., ELEC & ELTEK (USA) CORPORATION, WURTH ELECTRONICS MIDCOM, INC., XFMRS, INC., Defendants.

No. C-07-06222 RMW ORDER REGARDING MOTION TO SEAL [Re Docket No. 220]

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confidential and an explanation for why it is confidential. Absent a satisfactory explanation, the court will deny the motion to seal.

DATED:

6/3/10

RONALD M. WHYTE United States District Judge

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to: Counsel for Plaintiff: Juanita R. Brooks Limin Zheng John Cameron Adkisson Michael J Kane Michael J. Pape William R. Woodford Counsel for Defendants: Joshua L. Raskin Andrew P. Nemiroff Martin C. Fliesler Martin G. Raskin Rex Hwang Kent Andrew Lambert Michael Joseph Powell Samuel F Miller Sarah Katherine Casey Terry John Mollica Harold C. Moore Christopher Todd Norris David Moorman [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail]

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated:

6/3/10

CCL Chambers of Judge Whyte

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