Doe
Doe v. United Of Omaha Life Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOHN DOE, Case No. 23-cv-02307-JST
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. PROCEED UNDER A PSEUDONYM
UNITED OF OMAHA LIFE INSURANCE Re: ECF No.
COMPANY,
11 Defendant.
12 Before the Court is Plaintiff’s unopposed motion to proceed under a pseudonym. ECF No. 3. The Court will grant the motion. “The normal presumption in litigation is that parties must use their real names.” Doe v. Kamehameha Schs./Bernice Pauahi Bishop Est., 596 F.3d 1036, 1042 (9th Cir. 2010). Parties may proceed pseudonymously only “in the ‘unusual case’ when nondisclosure of the party’s identity ‘is necessary . . . to protect a person from harassment, injury, ridicule or personal embarrassment.” Does I Thru XXIII v. Advanced Textile Corp., 214 F.3d 1058, 1067–68 (9th Cir. 2000) (alteration in original) (quoting United States v. Doe, 655 F.2d 920, 922 n.1 (9th Cir. 1981)). “Because there is a presumption that parties’ identities are public…