Iovino v. AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. ( 2024 )

1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 7 CARMEN IOVINO, et al., 8 Case No.: 2:22-cv-01974-APG-NJK Plaintiff(s), 9 Order v. 10 [Docket No. 143] AMTRUST FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., 11 et al., 12 Defendant(s). 13 Pending before the Court is Defendant AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.’s emergency 14 motion to seal one exhibit filed in conjunction with Plaintiff’s motion to compel. Docket No. 143; 15 see also Docket No. 142-7 (Exhibit 6). Defendant submits that Exhibit 6 contains Defendant’s 16 private, confidential financial information which, as a privately held corporation, it does not 17 publicly report. Docket No. 143 at 2. Defendant further submits that the exhibit should be sealed 18 because the public disclosure of Defendant’s confidential business information would harm 19 Defendant’s competitive standing. Id. Plaintiff consents to sealing and does not oppose this 20 motion. Id. 21 Such exhibits may be sealed upon a particularized showing of good cause. See Kamakana 22 v. City & County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1180 (9th Cir. 2006). In this case, Defendant has 23 attested to the sensitive financial nature of the information in the document, and the competitive 24 disadvantage that could result from disclosure.1 For good cause shown, the motion to seal is 25 26 1Harm to competitive standing is a particularized harm sufficient to support the sealing of 27 documents. Anderson v. Trans Union, LLC, No. 222CV01214GMNNJK, 2023 WL 4456776, at *7 (D. Nev. July 11, 2023). 28 1) GRANTED. Docket No. 143. The Clerk’s Office is INSTRUCTED to seal the document at 2|| Docket No. 142-7. 3 IT IS SO ORDERED. 1 Dated: August 30, 2024 □ YY EF a Nancy J. Koppe ‘ 6 United States Magistrate Judge 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28