Summary
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio granted Plaintiffs’ unopposed motion for leave to file under seal their forthcoming opposition to Defendants’ motion to compel. The Court directed that the opposition and related information remain under seal until further order and prohibited public or third-party disclosure of the sealed information absent agreement by the parties.
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Questions Presented
- Whether plaintiffs should be permitted to file under seal an opposition to defendants' motion to compel that references information already subject to a sealing order.
Holdings
- The Court granted plaintiffs' unopposed motion for leave to file under seal because protecting the information at issue outweighed the public's interest in disclosure.
Factual background
The plaintiffs were preparing an opposition to defendants' motion to compel. The opposition would reference information contained in defendants' motion that the Court had previously ordered sealed. Plaintiffs therefore requested leave to file the opposition under seal, and defendants did not oppose the request.
Procedural history
Plaintiffs sought to seal information in their forthcoming opposition that was referenced in defendants' motion to compel and had already been ordered sealed by the Court. The district court granted the unopposed motion and directed that the opposition and sealed information remain under seal until further order.