Meta Platforms, Inc. v. BrandTotal Ltd.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 META PLATFORMS, INC., Case No. 20-cv-07182-JCS
Plaintiff, ORDER REGARDING
ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO FILE
v. UNDER SEAL
BRANDTOTAL LTD., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 205 Defendants.
12 Defendants BrandTotal Ltd. and Unimania, Inc. (collectively, “BrandTotal”) moved to file under seal a joint discovery letter brief and the attachments thereto based on designations of confidentiality by Plaintiff Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”), known at the time as Facebook, Inc. Dkt. 205. Meta filed a responsive declaration by its attorney Michael Chmelar. Dkt. 207. Meta seeks to maintain all documents at issue under seal except for portions of Exhibit A, the transcript of a deposition of Meta employee Sanchit Karve. Because the discovery dispute at issue is only tangentially related to the merits of the case, the Court applies a more lenient standard of “good cause” to file under seal, rather than requiring “compelling reasons” to do so. See…