DOE
DOE v. Life Insurance Company of North America
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOHN DOE, Case No. 20-cv-00392-JD Plaintiff,
ORDER RE PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO
Vv. PROCEED UNDER PSEUDONYM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF Re: Dkt. No. 3 NORTH AMERICA, et al., Defendants.
The Court has reviewed plaintiff's request to proceed with this action under a fictitious || name. Dkt. No. 3. The request is granted on a preliminary basis. Our federal courts have a strong tradition of transparent litigation. See Does I thru XXIII y. || Advanced Textile Corp., 214 F.3d 1058, 1067 (2000) (the “use of fictitious names runs afoul of the 17. || public’s common law right of access to judicial proceedings, and Rule 10(a)’s command that the 1g || title of every complaint ‘include the names of all the parties.’”) (citations omitted). The Court is || consequently unwilling to permanently grant broad anonymity to the plaintiff at this stage of the || case, when no defendant has been…