R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. v. Pappas ( 2024 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 12 13 R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY, Case No.: 2:21-cv-00753-DJC-AC 14 Plaintiff, 15 v. ORDER GRANTING REQUESTS TO 16 JOHN PAPPAS, III, MERILIZ INC., PM SEAL 17 CORPORATE GROUP, INC., and DOME 18 PRINTING AND PACKAGING, LLC, 19 Defendants. 20 21 Plaintiff has filed two Requests to Seal Documents that Defendants have 22 opposed. (See ECF Nos. 190, 196.) Having considered the briefing of both parties 23 (see ECF Nos. 190, 194, 196, 204, 215), the Court concludes that a compelling reason 24 exists to seal the documents in question as they contain confidential commercial 25 information in the form of customer information, including customer names, that 26 could cause harm if disclosed publicly to competitors. See Virun, Inc. v. Cymbiotika, 27 LLC, No. 8:22-cv-00325-SSS-DFMx, 2022 WL 17401698, at *2 (C.D. Cal. Aug. 19, 28 1 2022); see also Upmann Sanchez Turf and Landscape, Inc. v. US Turf, LLC, No. 2:21-cv- 2 01749-JCM-DJA, 2023 WL 2610178, at *5 (D. Nev. Mar. 23, 2023). Accordingly, 3 Plaintiff’s Requests to Seal Documents (ECF Nos. 190, 196) are GRANTED. 4 5 Dated: May 17, 2024 /s/ Daniel J. Calabretta THE HONORABLE DANIEL J. CALABRETTA 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28