Whaley v. C R Bard Incorporated
- Kenneth Karas
- 7:19-cv-08524
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 3
In Whaley v. C. R. Bard, Inc., Judge Karas’s filing describes Whaley’s request to seal confidential material, but the provided text contains no ruling.
Shirley Whaley and the defendants, C. R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., are affected by the request to seal Exhibit A; the provided text does not show whether the request was granted or denied.
What happened
Whaley filed a motion asking to keep Exhibit A to her motion to consolidate under seal. The exhibit concerns consolidation of three listed cases involving C. R. Bard, Inc., Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., and other plaintiffs identified in the filing.
The motion says the exhibit contains confidential information protected by a stipulated protective order in the Bard multidistrict litigation. It argues that the information includes proprietary and trade-secret material designated as confidential by the defendants.
The provided text is the plaintiff’s motion, signed by counsel, not an order deciding the request. Judge Kenneth M. Karas’s ruling on the motion is not included in the provided text.
The detailed version
- Whaley v. C R Bard Incorporated · No. 7:19-cv-08524
- Kenneth Karas
- Dec. 16, 2019
Background
Shirley Whaley filed a motion for permission to submit Exhibit A to her motion to consolidate under seal. The motion concerns three cases identified as Johnson v. C.R. Bard Incorporated, et al., No. 7:19-cv-08478-KMK; Petro v. C.R. Bard Incorporated, et al., No. 7:19-cv-08480-KMK; and Whaley v. C.R. Bard Incorporated, et al., No. 7:19-cv-08524-KMK.
Arguments
Whaley’s motion states that Exhibit A contains confidential information protected by the stipulated protective order in the Bard multidistrict litigation. It says the defendants designated the exhibit as confidential because disclosure would reveal confidential, proprietary, and trade-secret information. The motion relies on Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1), which allows a court to protect certain confidential commercial information from public disclosure when there is good cause.
Disposition
The provided text contains the plaintiff’s request and legal arguments but does not include an order granting, denying, or otherwise deciding the motion. Accordingly, no disposition of the sealing request can be stated from this text. Judge Kenneth M. Karas is identified as the judge, but his ruling is not included.
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