Doolittle v. Bloomberg L.P.

Background

On March 31, 2025, the court allowed Abigail Doolittle to keep expert reports, PCL-5 checklists, and physician-office notes temporarily under seal while it considered the underlying substantive motions. The court also allowed targeted redactions to deposition transcripts and directed the parties to refile memoranda with redactions where they directly quoted or summarized sealed exhibits.

Doolittle then filed several letter-motions seeking targeted redactions or permission to file materials under seal. The materials included her opposition concerning Bloomberg’s expert, an exhibit containing excerpts from a deposition transcript, documents covered by the March 31 order, an opposition and deposition excerpts concerning her motion involving Bloomberg’s expert, and a reply memorandum and exhibit concerning that expert. At Doolittle’s request, Bloomberg also filed an opposition and deposition excerpts under seal and sought leave to file another reply memorandum under seal.

Doolittle represented that the proposed redactions covered only sensitive medical information or intimate details of her personal life that were not connected to the allegations in the case. She also represented that the redactions to deposition transcripts covered that type of information.

Ruling

The court granted Plaintiff’s various letter-motions to file the identified docket materials under seal and/or with redactions temporarily, pending a final determination on the underlying substantive motions. The court stated that public access would be protected because its decisions would not be filed under seal and references to the relevant records in future decisions would be unredacted.

The Clerk of Court was directed to maintain Docket Entries 195, 198, 200, 201, 205, 207, 208, 212, and 218 under seal. The court also directed the Clerk to terminate the gavels at Docket Entries 194, 196, 204, 206, and 211. This order did not decide the underlying motions concerning the expert testimony.