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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ROY DONOVAN LACY, Case No. 21-cv-03377-HSG Petitioner, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

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v. Re: Dkt. No. 13 PAUL MIYAMOTO, Respondent. 12 Petitioner, a state prisoner, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Now pending before the Court is Respondent’s administrative motion to file under seal Petitioner’s probation report, located at pages 1077-1100 of the clerk’s transcript and docketed herein at Dkt. No. 13-3. Dkt. No. 13. For the reasons set forth below, this request is GRANTED. Generally, documents filed on the docket are presumed to be available to the public. EEOC v. Erection Co., 900 F.2d 168, 170 (9th Cir. 1990); see also Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178 (9th Cir. 2006); Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., 331 F.3d 1122, 1134 (9th Cir. 2003). In evaluating the request, the Court considers the “public interest in understanding the judicial process and…