Align Technology, Inc. v. SmileDirectClub, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., Case No. 23-cv-00023-EMC

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' v. MOTION TO STAY

SMILEDIRECTCLUB, LLC, et al., Docket No. 41 Defendants.

12 13 Previously, the Court issued an order granting in part and denying in part a request to seal information filed by Defendants (hereinafter collectively referred to as “SDC”). See Docket No. 36 (order). That same day, SDC appealed the Court’s order (to the extent sealing was denied) to the Ninth Circuit. See Docket No. 37 (notice of appeal). The Court granted SDC’s motion to stay enforcement of the sealing order pending resolution of a motion to stay pending appeal that SDC intended to file. SDC has now filed that motion to stay. Having considered the parties’ briefs,1 the Court finds the matter suitable for disposition without oral argument. The motion to stay pending appeal is hereby GRANTED. 22 "A stay is not a matter of right. . . . It is instead 'an…