Coventry Capital US LLC v. EEA Life Settlements, Inc. et al

Filing 348

ORDER granting 347 Letter Motion to Seal. Plaintiff Coventry Capital US LLC's ("Coventry") letter-motion seeking to redact specific portions of the transcriptto protect the privacy of third parties (ECF No. 347) is GRANTED. By Monday, June 20, 2022, Coventry shall file atranscript with these redactions.The Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to close ECF No. 347. SO ORDERED. (Signed by Magistrate Judge Sarah L Cave on 6/15/22) (yv)

Plaintiff Coventry Capital US LLC's ("Coventry") letter-motion seeking to redact specific portions of the transcript
to protect the privacy of third parties (ECF No. 347) is GRANTED. By Monday, June 20, 2022, Coventry shall file a
transcript with these redactions.
The
Clerk of
Court is respectfully directed to close ECF No. 347.
KENNETH
J. BROWN
SO ORDERED 06/15/2022

June 14, 2022
Via ECF
The Honorable Sarah L. Cave
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
500 Pearl Street, Room 1670
New York, NY 10007
Re: Coventry Capital US LLC v. EEA Life Settlements, Inc., No. 17-cv-7417-VM-SLC
Dear Judge Cave:
I write on behalf of Coventry Capital US LLC (“Coventry”) to request that the Court order
that limited portions of the transcript of the May 27, 2022 hearing in this matter be redacted to
protect the privacy of third parties. Defendants have indicated that they do not oppose this request.
Redaction is necessary because during the hearing the parties referred by name to certain
insured individuals whose life-insurance policies were part of the portfolio of policies at issue in
this case. The full names of those insureds should be kept confidential to protect their privacy,
particularly given the sensitive medical and other personal matters about the insureds that may be
discussed in connection with their life-insurance policies. See, e.g., United States v. King, 2012
WL 2196674, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. June 15, 2012) (permitting redaction of third-party medical
information because “[t]he need to protect the privacy of these third parties is a compelling one . .
. which overrides any public interest in the disclosure of these materials” particularly where the
information to be redacted was “truly tangential to the sentencing decision in this case”).
Accordingly, Coventry respectfully requests that the Court order that the mentions of
insured names on the following pages and lines of the transcript of the May 27, 2022 hearing be
redacted: 7:7, 7:23, 8:4, 8:9, 8:11, 8:16, 8:20, 8:23, 9:23, 11:6, 11:18, 12:3, 12:5, 12:11, 12:17,
14:21, 14:25, 16:13, 24:21, 28:19, 29:9, 30:21–22, 33:7, 34:5, and 45:11. If it would be helpful to
the Court, Coventry would be happy to prepare and submit a proposed redacted version of the
transcript.
We appreciate the Court’s attention to these matters and are prepared to address them
further at the Court’s convenience.

June 14, 2022
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Respectfully submitted,

Kenneth J. Brown