GJ&L, Inc. v. CNH Industrial America, LLC

Filing 16

ORDER granting 15 Motion to Seal Documents Exhibits A and B of 14 Defendant's Answer to Plaintiff's Amended Complaint. Signed by Chief Judge J. Randal Hall on 02/13/2018. (jlh)

IN THE

UNITED

STATES

DISTRICT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT

OF

COURT

FOR THE

GEORGIA

AUGUSTA DIVISION

GJ&L,

INC.,

*

Plaintiff,

*
*

CV

117-179

*

CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA,

LLC,

*

Defendant.

*

ORDER

Before

under seal.

Defendant's

the

Court

is

(Doc. 15.)

request

to

Defendant's

motion

for

On January 4, 2018,

seal

the

2008

leave

to

file

the Court granted

and

2010

Dealership

Agreement ("Dealership Agreements") that it planned to attach to
its Answer.

Complaint

(Doc. 9.)

(doc.

11)

Plaintiff subsequently filed its Amended

and Defendant now seeks to file the same

Dealership Agreements under seal as attachments to its Answer to
Plaintiff's Amended Complaint (doc. 14).

There has been no factual development to convince the Court

that sealing the Dealership Agreements is now inappropriate.

As

found by the January 4 Order, the Dealership Agreements contain
proprietary information central to the case that outweighs the

public interest in accessing these records.
Co.

v.

Bridgestone/Firestone,

Inc.,

See Chicago Tribune

263 F.3d 1304,

1310

(11th

Cir.

2001)

balancing
motion
file

of

(doc.

common-law

competing
15)

Exhibits

Amended
this

("[T]he

A

is

Complaint

interests.").

GRANTED.

and

right

B

of

(doc.

14)

The

of

Clerk

SEAL

requires

Accordingly,

Defendant's

UNDER

access

is

a

Defendant's

hereby DIRECTED

Answer

until

to

to

Plaintiff's

further

order of

Court.

ORDER

ENTERED

at

Augusta,

Georgia,

this

/^
day
]£*)*

of

^-2^2^f^-2018 •

W

J. RANDAL liALL, CHIEF JUDGE

UNITED SPATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA