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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 UNITED STATES ex rel. ESTATE OF Case No. 23-cv-03950-LJC

WILLIAM ARTEMUS,

8 Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY 9 PRIOR FILINGS SHOULD NOT BE v. UNSEALED 10 JIM YAN LOUIE, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 12 11 Defendants.

12 13 In order to allow this False Claims Act case to proceed, the Court previously endorsed the 14 proposed order accompanying the United States’ decision to decline intervention, which called 15 unsealing all future filings but only two documents filed prior to the date of that order: Relator’s 16 Complaint and the United States’ Notice of Election to Decline Intervention. ECF No. 12 at 4. 17 The United States asserted, without citation to authority, that all other preexisting filings should 18 remain under seal “because in discussing the content and extent of the United States’ 19 investigation, such papers are provided by law to the Court alone for the sole purpose of 20 evaluating whether the seal and time for making an election to intervene…