E.P.E.
E.P.E. v. United States
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 E.P.E., et al., Case No.: 24-cv-0312-AGS-MSB
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
Plaintiffs, PROCEED PSEUDONYMOUSLY v. (ECF 3)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendant.
Four plaintiffs request leave to proceed under pseudonyms to protect their identities from public disclosure. For the reasons below, that unopposed motion is granted. BACKGROUND The four adult plaintiffs in this case are all asylum-seekers who came to the United States seeking refuge from “persecution or torture” in their countries of origin. (ECF 1, at 3.) Shortly after arriving, each gave birth to a U.S. citizen—each also a plaintiff here—and the identities of those infants are already protected. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2(a)(3). All allege that, after giving birth in custody, they were promptly expelled to Mexico with their newborns, where they “struggled to survive” for many months. (See ECF 1, at 3.)…