IN RE DIDI GLOBAL INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION

Request

Plaintiffs’ counsel submitted a letter requesting permission to file under seal Plaintiffs’ Letter Motion To Compel Defendant DiDi Global Inc.’s Responses to Interrogatories and three exhibits attached to that motion. A motion to compel asks the court to require a party to provide discovery responses.

Basis for the Request

The letter states that the parties’ Confidentiality Stipulation and Protective Order required the receiving party to file confidential or attorneys’-eyes-only information under seal unless the producing party consented or the court ordered otherwise. Plaintiffs said DiDi Global Inc. had designated the materials “CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

Plaintiffs did not concede that DiDi’s designations were proper or that DiDi had shown a sufficient basis for sealing court records. The letter discussed the general presumption favoring public access to judicial records and stated that the court—not the parties’ agreement—determines whether sealing is appropriate.

People and Entities Identified

The letter identifies Lead Plaintiff Alaka Holdings Ltd. and named plaintiffs Shereen El-Nahas, Daniil Alimov, Bosco Wang, and Njal Larson. It lists DiDi Global Inc., several investment-bank defendants, and individual defendants as parties whose counsel should have access to the sealed materials.

Disposition Shown in the Text

The provided text does not show an order granting or denying the sealing request, and it does not state any ruling on the motion to compel. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan is identified as the judge, but the text supplied here is the plaintiffs’ request rather than a stated disposition.