Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company et al v. Bell et al

Filing 22

ORDER granting parties' 20 Joint Motion to File Under Seal; Clerk shall SEAL Dkts. 1 , 4 , 13 and UNSEAL parties' motion at Dkt. 20 ; Plaintiff shall file a public, redacted version of the Second Amended Complaint (Dkt. # 13 ) no later than five (5) days from the date of this Order, by Judge Ricardo S Martinez. (SWT)

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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ALLSTATE PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. C16-0844RSM ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL v. JEFFREY BELL, et al., Defendants. 12 THIS MATTER comes before the Court on the parties’ Joint Motion to Seal. Dkt. 13 14 #20. The parties ask the Court to seal the Complaint, First Amended Complaint and Second 15 Amended Complaint, as they contain extensive content discussing prior, confidential 16 arbitration proceedings. Id. The Court has reviewed the motion, along with the documents 17 at issue, and agrees that the Complaint (Dkt. #1), Amended Complaint (Dkt. #4) and 18 Second Amended Complaint (Dkt. #13), all contain allegations relating to private 19 arbitration proceedings. The Court further agrees that because these proceedings were 20 21 22 never meant to be open to the public, the nature of the allegations therein are potentially damaging to the parties involved. 23 Accordingly, the Court hereby ORDERS: 24 1. The parties’ Motion to Seal (Dkt. #20) is GRANTED. 25 The Clerk shall immediately seal Dkts. #1, #4 and #13. However, the motion itself does not 26 ORDER - 1 1 2 3 contain confidential material and should not have been sealed. Accordingly, the Clerk shall also immediately UNSEAL the parties’ motion at Dkt. #20. 2. Further, Plaintiff shall file a public, redacted version of the Second Amended 4 5 6 Complaint (Dkt. #13) no later than five (5) days from the date of this Order. DATED this 11 day of April, 2017. 7 8 A 9 RICARDO S. MARTINEZ CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ORDER - 2

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