Guerrero v. Wharton

Filing 71

ORDER Re: 56 Motion to Compel, 57 Motion to Seal, 59 Order to Show Cause. Telephonic Hearing set for 3/14/2018 at 09:00 AM before Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe. Signed by Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe on 3/9/2018. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - ADR)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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KELLY GUERRERO,
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Plaintiff(s),
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v.
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VINCENT NEIL WHARTON,
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Defendant(s).
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Case No. 2:16-cv-01667-GMN-NJK
ORDER

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Pending before the Court are two motions to seal. Docket No. 56, 65. Also pending before the

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Court is an order to show cause. Docket No. 59. The Court hereby SETS those matters for a telephonic

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hearing for 9:00 a.m. on March 14, 2018. Counsel shall appear telephonically by calling the Court

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conference line at 877-402-9757 at least five minutes prior to the hearing. The conference code is

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6791056. In order to ensure a clear recording of the hearing, the call must be made using a land line

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phone. Cell phone calls, as well as the use of a speaker phone, are prohibited.

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As a threshold matter, the Court reminds the parties that “sealing” and “redacting” are different

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things. Sealing involves keeping an entire document shielded from the public; redacting involves

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placing a document on the public docket with discrete portions of that document blacked out. To the

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extent any confidential information can be easily redacted while leaving meaningful information

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available to the public, the Court must order that redacted versions be filed rather than sealing entire

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documents. Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 331 F.3d 1122, 1137 (9th Cir. 2003); see also In

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re Roman Catholic Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, 661 F.3d 417, 425 (9th Cir. 2011) (the district

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court must “keep in mind the possibility of redacting the sensitive material”).

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

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DATED: March 9, 2018

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NANCY J. KOPPE
United States Magistrate Judge

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