Align Technology, Inc. v. SmileDirectClub, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., Case No. 23-cv-00023-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v. DENYING IN PART MOTIONS TO
SEAL
SMILEDIRECTCLUB, LLC, et al., Docket Nos. 2, 26 Defendants.
12 13 Currently pending before the Court are two motions to seal related to the complaint filed by Align. One motion has been filed by Align; the second by Defendants (hereinafter collectively referred to as “SDC”). Although Align originally agreed with SDC that the information at issue should be sealed, it has essentially taken a more neutral position now, leaving it to SDC to argue that the information should be sealed. In accordance with an order issued by Judge Kim (the then- assigned judge), SDC has filed a supplemental brief (Docket No. 33) that identifies what information SDC believes should be sealed and why. The Court hereby GRANTS in part and DENIES in part the request to seal. As an initial matter, the Court provisionally seals…