3DT Holdings LLC v. Bard Access Systems Inc.
- Lewis Liman
- 1:17-cv-05463
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In 3DT Holdings v. Bard Access Systems, Judge Liman ordered the parties to jointly identify proposed sealing redactions and explain their confidentiality requests.
3DT Holdings LLC and Bard Access Systems Inc., the parties required to submit a joint letter addressing proposed redactions and confidentiality.
What happened
3DT Holdings LLC v. Bard Access Systems Inc. involved the parties’ requests to file documents connected with their summary-judgment motions under seal.
The court directed the parties to compare their proposed redactions with the redactions allowed in an earlier order and opinion, and to submit a joint letter by February 17, 2022. For each document, the letter had to explain the confidentiality request, whether the information was already public, and whether disclosure would cause competitive or other serious harm.
Judge Lewis J. Liman issued this order on February 10, 2022. The order addressed the parties’ proposed redactions and did not state a ruling on the underlying summary-judgment motions.
The detailed version
- 3DT Holdings LLC v. Bard Access Systems Inc. · No. 1:17-cv-05463
- Lewis Liman
- Feb. 10, 2022
Background
The parties filed several motions seeking to have documents connected with their summary-judgment motions filed under seal. The requests were identified at Dkt. Nos. 71, 74, 81, 85, 91, 93, and 97. The court stated that it had held a hearing on the summary-judgment motions and had issued an opinion with limited redactions in a separate order and opinion at Dkt. No. 109.
Court’s Order
The court directed the parties to review their proposed redactions against the redactions permitted in Dkt. No. 109 and the standards governing public access to judicial documents, including the standards described in Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga and later cases. By February 17, 2022, the parties had to submit a joint letter identifying the redactions that should remain. For each document for which confidentiality was requested, the letter could contain no more than one sentence explaining the basis for the request and had to address whether the information had already been publicly disclosed and whether disclosure at that time would cause competitive or other serious harm.
Disposition and Effect
The court entered the directive and did not state in this order that it granted or denied the underlying summary-judgment motions or finally resolved the sealing requests. The order required the parties to provide the requested joint submission. Judge Lewis J. Liman signed the order on February 10, 2022.
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