Dangaard
Dangaard v. Instagram, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
DAWN DANGAARD, KELLY GILBERT, and JENNIFER ALLBAUGH, No. C 22-01101 WHA Plaintiffs,
v.
OMNIBUS ORDER RE MOTIONS TO
INSTAGRAM, LLC, FACEBOOK SEAL AND RELATED FILINGS
OPERATIONS, LLC, META PLATFORMS, INC., and JOHN DOES 1– 10, Defendants.
17 This order addresses outstanding motions to seal. There is a strong public policy in favor of openness in our court system and the public is entitled to know to whom we are providing relief (or not). See Kamakana v. City & Cnty. Of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178–80 (9th Cir. 2006). “Unless a particular court record is one ‘traditionally kept secret,’ a ‘strong presumption in favor of access’ is the starting point.” Ibid. (quoting Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 331 F.3d 1122, 1135 (9th Cir. 2003)). Access to motions and their attachments that are “more than tangentially related to the merits of a case” may be sealed only upon a showing of…