Chanel, Inc. v. The RealReal, Inc.
- Vernon Broderick
- 1:18-cv-10626
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Chanel v. The RealReal, Judge Gorenstein granted discovery and sealing requests while partly granting and partly denying other applications.
Chanel, Inc. and The RealReal, Inc., concerning discovery on the counterclaims and unclean-hands defense, the specified applications, and the sealed filings.
What happened
In Chanel, Inc. v. The RealReal, Inc., the court addressed several requests during a March 10, 2022 telephone conference about discovery and confidential information.
The court granted Chanel’s request to pause discovery on The RealReal’s counterclaims and unclean-hands defense. It granted in part and denied in part the applications in Docket 180, except for a separate privilege dispute. It also granted motions to seal four filings because the information was confidential business information whose disclosure could harm a party’s competitive position or reveal a trade secret.
Gabriel W. Gorenstein, the United States Magistrate Judge who issued the order, entered these rulings on March 10, 2022.
The detailed version
- Chanel, Inc. v. The RealReal, Inc. · No. 1:18-cv-10626
- Vernon Broderick
- Mar. 10, 2022
Background
The order concerns Docket Nos. 158, 180, 165, 173, 178, and 179. The court issued the rulings after a telephone discovery conference held on March 10, 2022. The opinion does not describe the underlying claims in detail.
Rulings
The court granted Chanel’s motion to stay, or pause, discovery concerning The RealReal’s counterclaims and unclean-hands defense.
For Docket No. 180, the court stated that the applications were granted in part and denied in part as described during the conference. The court separately noted that a privilege dispute from that docket was being briefed and did not include it in that ruling.
The court also granted the motions to seal filed at Docket Nos. 165, 173, 178, and 179. It found that the material sought to be sealed was confidential business information and that public disclosure could harm the moving party’s competitive position or reveal a trade secret.
Disposition
The specified discovery-stay motion was granted; the Docket No. 180 applications, excluding the separately briefed privilege dispute, were granted in part and denied in part; and the four sealing motions were granted. The order was signed by Gabriel W. Gorenstein, United States Magistrate Judge.
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