Sacramento Downtown Arena LLC v. Factory Mutual Ins. Co.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN ARENA No. 2:21-cv-00441-KJM-SCR
LLC; SACRAMENTO KINGS LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP; SAC MUBI1 HOTEL, LLC; ORDER and SGD RETAIL LLC, Plaintiffs, 14 v.
FACTORY MUTUAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, and DOES 1-10, inclusive, Defendants. 18 Plaintiffs request this court seal part of a document submitted in support of plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment. See generally Seal Req. Notice, ECF No. 118. No opposition was filed. There 1s a strong presumption in favor of public access to court records. See Phillips v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210 (9th Cir. 2002). However, “access to judicial records is 24 not absolute.” Kamakana v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178 (9th Cir. 2006). For 25 dispositive motions, such as a partial motion for summary judgment, a request to seal can be 26 granted only if the plaintiffs offer a “compelling reason” to keep the information in question from the…