Belyea v. GreenSky, Inc.

Summary

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California grants GreenSky, Inc.’s second amended motion to seal materials related to class certification, Daubert, and summary judgment filings. The court finds that the narrowly tailored redactions concern confidential business information, strategies, contractual terms, and banking-partner identities, and directs the parties to refile the documents consistent with the order.

Holdings

1. The compelling-reasons standard applies to the parties' summary-judgment, class-certification, and Daubert filings because those materials are more than tangentially related to the underlying cause of action; the good-cause standard applies only to materials unrelated or merely tangentially related to the action.
2. GreenSky established compelling reasons to seal the specified portions of the six briefs, two exhibits, and the GreenSky 30(b)(6) deposition transcript because the requests were narrowly tailored and concerned confidential business information, business strategies, and banking-partner identities.

Questions Presented

1. Whether GreenSky satisfied the applicable standard for sealing specified portions of briefs, exhibits, and a deposition transcript filed in connection with class-certification, Daubert, and summary-judgment proceedings.
2. Whether the requested sealing was sufficiently narrow and supported by compelling reasons based on the confidential nature of the information.

Disposition

other