Stephanie Key v. Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages, LLC, and Dolgencorp of Texas, Inc. d/b/a Dollar General #12498

Summary

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas grants the parties’ agreed motion to seal an exhibit containing excerpts from Dollar General’s confidential Standard Operating Procedures. The court finds that the exhibit includes proprietary operational information whose disclosure could cause competitive harm, and that the interests favoring nondisclosure outweigh the public’s common-law right of access. The court directs Plaintiff to file Exhibit 3 under seal.

Holdings

1. Exhibit 3 should be sealed because the parties identified specific competitive harms from disclosure, the information was proprietary and confidential, and the interests favoring nondisclosure outweighed the public's common-law right of access.

Questions Presented

1. Whether Exhibit 3 should be filed under seal under Local Civil Rule 79.3(b) and the common-law right of access to judicial records.

Disposition

other