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S.D.N.Y.OtherFiled Dec. 10, 2020

Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC v. Neuman

Judge
Louis Stanton
Docket
1:18-cv-04252
Court
U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
Pages
2
Civil ProcedureDiscovery
In one sentence

In Innovatus Capital Partners v. Neuman, Judge Stanton's filing presents Innovatus's request to seal materials, but contains no ruling.

Who this affects

Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, the parties seeking access to the materials, and the public; the provided text does not state a final effect because it contains no ruling.

What happened

In Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC v. Neuman, Innovatus asked to file unredacted versions of certain exhibits and related passages under seal. The request concerned information the company described as highly confidential, including marketing, financial, and business-development information.

The letter says the court had previously allowed redactions of related documents and that Innovatus filed public redacted versions while submitting unredacted versions for limited party access. Innovatus asked the court to allow the unredacted materials to remain under seal.

The provided text does not state how the request was decided. No ruling by Judge Louis L. Stanton appears in the text provided.

The detailed version

For law students, journalists, and other readers who want the full reasoning

Case
Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC v. Neuman · No. 1:18-cv-04252
Judge
Louis Stanton
Date
Dec. 10, 2020

Document and request

The provided document is a December 4, 2020 letter from counsel for Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC to Judge Louis L. Stanton. Innovatus was identified as the plaintiff in Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC v. Neuman and the defendant in a related action, MV Realty, PBC, LLC v. Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC. The letter supports Innovatus's request to file under seal unredacted versions of portions of its opposition to defendants' motion for summary judgment and related exhibits and declarations.

Basis for sealing request

The letter argues that the materials contain highly confidential information, including marketing strategy, financial analysis, business-development strategy, and information from Innovatus's financial models. It states that the court had previously ordered that certain documents could be redacted from the public file. Innovatus said the exhibits submitted with its opposition contained the same information, or substantially similar information, as the previously approved redactions.

Innovatus reported that it had filed redacted versions publicly and unredacted versions under seal for selected-party viewing. The letter asked the court to permit the unredacted versions to remain under seal to protect the information from public disclosure.

Disposition

The provided text contains the party's request and its supporting arguments, but it does not include an order or other ruling deciding the request. Accordingly, the text does not show whether Judge Louis L. Stanton granted, denied, or otherwise resolved the motion to seal.

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