Stephens

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 P. BART STEPHENS, Case No. 23-cv-04183-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE SEALING

v.

JANE DOE, Defendant.

12 In this action to recover allegedly stolen cryptocurrency assets, plaintiff P. Bart Stephens asks to seal portions of his complaint, motions for a temporary restraining order and supporting declarations, and portions of a hearing transcript. See Dkt. Nos. 2; 21; 29; and 30. He says that these filings should be redacted because they contain “information that reflects personal consumer information, personal financial information, and communications.” Dkt. No. 21 at 1. Because the documents do not reveal such information, the requests are denied. There is a strong presumption in favor of public access to court records. “[O]rdinarily a party must show ‘compelling reasons’ to keep a court document under seal,” including documents filed in connection with a motion for preliminary injunction or any other motion that is “more than tangentially related to the merits…