Ballester

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 ELEANOR BALLESTER, Case No. 23-cv-1839-BAS-KSC Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE

v.

MOTION TO FILE DOCUMENTS

UNDER SEAL (ECF No. 15) AND

DENYING MOTION TO SHORTEN

COMMISSIONER LEAH BOUCEK, TIME AS MOOT (ECF No. 16)

JUDGE MICHAEL T. SMYTH,

BENJAMIN YIP, PUJA ARUN

SACHDEV, SAMUEL MARTINETTE,

MARK HEINRICH, and DOES 1-10 17 include, 18 Defendants.

Before the Court is Defendant Commissioner Leah Boucek’s ex parte motion to file previously filed documents under seal (ECF No. 15) and application to shorten time to hear this motion. (ECF No. 16.) Defendant seeks to file Plaintiff’s ex parte application to set aside the prior judgment and Plaintiff’s proof of service of summons under seal. (ECF Nos. 3-2, 6.) Plaintiff has not responded to Defendant’s motion to seal.1 “[T]he courts of this country recognize a general right to inspect and copy public records and documents, including judicial records and documents.” Nixon v. Warner 27 1 The…