Solo et al v. United Parcel Service Co.

Filing 68

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S 66 Motion to Redact Portions of the Transcript from the Hearing Held on August 30, 2016 - Signed by Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen. (CCie)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
JOE SOLO, ET AL.,
Plaintiffs,

No. 14-12719

v.

District Judge Gerald E. Rosen
Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO.,
Defendant.
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ORDER
Defendant United Parcel Service Co. has filed a Motion to Redact portions of the
Transcript from the Hearing Held on August 30, 2016 [Doc. #66]. Defendant’s counsel
states that at their Local Rule 7.1 conference, Plaintiffs’ counsel “stated that Plaintiffs do
not intend to oppose this motion, but reserve all arguments that Defendant has not
satisfied the applicable standards for sealing under the law of this Circuit.”
On August 30, 2016, I granted Defendant’s motion to seal the unredacted versions
of declarations submitted by George Downs and Karl Wixtrom, based on Defendant’s
argument that portions of those declarations contained proprietary commercial
information regarding Defendant’s billing and operational systems. The portions of the
hearing transcript that Defendant now asks to be redacted are in substance similar to the
declarations that I previously ordered sealed.
Accordingly, Defendant’s Motion to Redact [Doc. #66] is GRANTED, without
prejudice to Plaintiffs’ future right to seek relief from this or any other sealing/redaction
order.
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The unredacted transcript of the August 30, 2016 motion hearing [Doc. #63] will
be stricken and removed from the docket. It will be replaced with the following sections
redacted:
-p. 54, third word of line 20 through line 22;
-p. 55, line 20 through line 22;
-p. 59, sixth word of line 13 through the eighth word of line 15;
-p. 60, third word of line six through the sixth word of line six;
-p. 60, third word of line 20 through p. 61, line 3.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/R. Steven Whalen
R. STEVEN WHALEN
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Date: October 3, 2016

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing document was sent to parties of record on
October 3, 2016, electronically and/or by U.S. mail.
s/Carolyn M. Ciesla
Case Manager to the
Honorable R. Steven Whalen

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