Hellman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Francisco Berlanga, et al., No. 2:21-cv-00949-KJM-DMC Plaintiffs, ORDER v. Polaris Industries, Inc., et al., 1S Defendants. 16 The parties jointly request an order sealing five documents in connection with an 18 anticipated motion for class certification. See Revised Req., ECF No. 76; Mem. (submitted for in camera review). The legal standard for requests to seal depends on whether the request is tied to a “dispositive” motion, i.e., a motion that is “more than tangentially related to the merits of a case.” Ctr. for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1101 (9th Cir. 2016). District courts 23 within the Ninth Circuit disagree whether a motion to certify a class is “dispositive” in this sense. 24 See, e.g., In re Seagate Tech. LLC, 326 F.R.D. 223, 246 (N.D. Cal. 2018) (collecting conflicting 25 authority). This court has decided class certification motions are…