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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

12 RALPH COLEMAN, et al., Case No. 2:90-CV-00520- KJM-DB 13 Plaintiffs, ORDER 14 v. Judge: Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller GAVIN NEWSOM, et al. 16 Defendants.

18 Good cause appearing, Defendants’ motion to file certain correspondence to the Special 19 Master under seal is GRANTED. 20 “Every court has supervisory power over its own records and files, and access has been 21 denied where court files might have become a vehicle for improper purposes.” Nixon v. Warner 22 Communications, Inc., 435 U.S. 589, 598 (1978). When a party moves to seal a record, the Court 23 looks to the underlying motion and determines whether it is “more than tangentially related to the 24 merits of the case. Ctr. for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1101 (9th Cir.), cert. 25 denied sub nom. FCA U.S. LLC v. Ctr. for Auto Safety, 137 S. Ct. 38 (2016). When a motion is 26 unrelated or only tangentially related to the merits of the case, the good cause standard applies. Id. 27 at 1097–98. To establish good cause, a party…