O'Neil
O'Neil v. City and County of San Francisco
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JUDY O’NEIL, Case No. 17-cv-07190-JCS
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING IN PART MOTION
v. TO RETAIN CONFIDENTIALITY AND
DENYING ADMINISTRATIVE
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL FRANCISCO, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 134, 136 Defendants.
12 I. INTRODUCTION This civil case arises from the fatal 2017 shooting of Keita O’Neil. Defendants the City and County of San Francisco, Edric Talusan, and Christopher Samayoa designated a large portion of the documents they produced in discovery as confidential pursuant to a protective order, and Plaintiff Judy O’Neil—Keita O’Neil’s mother—challenged the validity of many of those designations, and Defendants withdrew some of them. Criminal charges related to the shooting are currently pending against Samayoa, a former police officer. Defendants now move to retain confidentiality as to several broad categories of documents. The Court held a hearing on…