ESC-Toy Ltd. v. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ESC-TOY LTD., Case No. 21-cv-00778-EMC
Plaintiffs,
ORDER ON THE PARTIES’
v. ADMINISTRATIVE MOTIONS TO
FILE UNDER SEAL
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, Docket Nos. 301, 315, 320, 336, 338, 341, 11 Defendants. 376, 377, and 378
12 The parties had filed several administrative motions to file under seal. See Docket Nos. 315, 320, and 336. The Court ordered the parties to re-file their administrative motions to file under seal, narrowing and clarifying their requests pursuant to L.R. 79-5 and Kamakana v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178-79 (9th Cir. 2006). See Docket No. 186. Because these filings pertain to Defendant’s Motion to Disqualify Plaintiffs’ counsel, Maschoff Brennan, which is a non-dispositive motion, the sealing requests only need to meet the “good cause” standard. In this instance, this case presents an unusual circumstance in which ESC-Toy’s (“ESC”) counsel may no longer view…