Bookends & Beginnings LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al

Filing 165

ORDER: granting 162 Letter Motion to Seal. For the reasons stated at ECF No. 148, Plaintiff's motion to seal is GRANTED. The Clerk of Court is directed to terminate the motion at ECF No. 162. SO ORDERED. (Signed by Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo on 11/22/2022) (ama)

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Steve W. Berman
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November 21, 2022

VIA ECF

11-22-2022

Hon. Valerie Figueredo
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse
500 Pearl Street
New York, NY 10007
Re:

For the reasons stated at ECF No. 148, Plaintiff’s
motion to seal is GRANTED. The Clerk of Court
is directed to terminate the motion at ECF No.
162. SO ORDERED.

Bookends & Beginnings LLC v. Amazon, et al.,
Case No. 21-cv-02584-GHW-VF (S.D.N.Y.)

Dear Magistrate Judge Figueredo:
Plaintiff submits this letter seeking leave to file portions of Plaintiff’s Second
Amended Complaint (“SAC”) under seal. The SAC quotes from and includes substantial
discussion of the Big Five Publisher Defendants’1 confidential agreements relating to the
sale of their print books to Defendant Amazon. Plaintiff seeks leave to seal consistent
with the Court’s prior sealing orders. See ECF Nos. 84, 120, 148. The Defendants
consented to the motion and provided the proposed redactions.
Plaintiff therefore requests leave to file portions of the SAC under seal and will
file a redacted version on ECF.

Hachette Book Group, Inc.; HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C.; Macmillan Publishing Group,
LLC; Penguin Random House LLC; and Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Sincerely,
HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP

Steve W. Berman
cc: All Counsel of Record (via ECF)

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