Assoc. for Accessible Medicines v. Becerra ( 2020 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ASSOCIATION FOR ACCESSIBLE No. 2:20-cv-01708-TLN-DB MEDICINES, 12 Plaintiff, 13 SEALING ORDER v. 14 XAVIER BECERRA, in his official 15 capacity as Attorney General of the State of California, 16 Defendant. 17 18 19 This matter is before the Court on Defendant Xavier Becerra’s (“Defendant”) Request to 20 Seal Documents. (ECF No. 18.) 21 Pursuant to Local Rule 141 and based upon the representations contained in Defendant’s 22 Request to Seal, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: (1) the Declaration of Tiffany K. Jantz- 23 Desormeaux, Ph.D. in support of Defendant’s Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion for Preliminary 24 Injunction and (2) Defendant’s Objections to Association for Accessible Medicines’s (“AAM”) 25 Declarations Submitted in Support of AAM’s Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (see ECF No. 26 20) shall be SEALED until further order of this Court. See, e.g., Four in One Co. v. S.K. Foods, 27 L.P., No. 2:08-cv-03017-KJM-EFB, 2014 WL 4078232, at *2 n.1 (E.D. Cal. Aug. 14, 2014) 28 (“Considering these factors, the court finds the need to protect the parties’ settlement negotiations 1 outweighs any necessity for disclosure.”). It is further ordered that electronic access to the sealed 2 documents shall be limited to counsel for the parties. 3 IT IS SO ORDERED. 4 DATED: October 20, 2020 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28