TOBAR v. FEDERAL DEFENDERS OF THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA INC et al

Filing 15

ORDER GRANTING 14 Motion to Seal Document. The Court treats the Defendant's Motion to Seal as a Motion to Restrict Access and the Defendant's Motion is GRANTED. Access to Document 11 and Document 13 shall be restricted to the Parties. Ordered by Judge Marc Thomas Treadwell on 2/20/2013. (tlh)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
MACON DIVISION
JOHN C. TOBAR,
Plaintiff,
v.
FEDERAL DEFENDERS OF THE
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, INC.,
and CYNTHIA ROSEBERRY,
Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION NO. 5:12-CV-416 (MTT)

ORDER
Before the Court is the Defendant’s1 Motion to Seal Documents. (Doc. 14). The
Plaintiff has filed various documents to support his response (Docs. 10, 12) to the
Court’s Order (Doc. 9) that he amend his Complaint. Among these documents are
memoranda the Plaintiff wrote to attorneys in the Federal Defenders office regarding
specific cases he was working on. (Doc. 11 at 3, 6-8, 16-22; Doc. 13 at 1-10). The
Defendants contend these documents should be sealed because they are protected by
attorney-client privilege. Regardless of whether these documents are privileged, they
are of a sufficiently sensitive nature that access to them should be limited to the Parties.
Accordingly, the Court treats the Defendant’s Motion to Seal as a Motion to Restrict
Access and the Defendant’s Motion is GRANTED. Access to Document 11 and
Document 13 shall be restricted to the Parties.
SO ORDERED, this 20th day of February, 2013.
S/ Marc T. Treadwell
MARC T. TREADWELL, JUDGE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

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The Court has dismissed the Plaintiff’s claims against Defendant Roseberry. (Doc. 9).