North America Photon Infotech, Ltd. v. ZoomInfo LLC
- John Cronan
- 1:20-cv-02180
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In North America Photon Infotech v. ZoomInfo, Judge Cronan ordered Photon to narrow allegedly overbroad redactions and justify them.
Photon was required to revise its redactions and explain them in detail; the order also concerned public access to Photon’s pretrial filings and information that ZoomInfo had identified as confidential.
What happened
In North America Photon Infotech, Ltd. v. ZoomInfo LLC, Photon asked the court to approve sealing and redacting parts of its pretrial filings because they contained information ZoomInfo had identified as confidential.
The court found that Photon’s redactions appeared overbroad, including redactions of legal arguments about damages that had previously been publicly addressed. The court directed Photon to file new redacted versions and a letter justifying each redaction.
Judge John P. Cronan issued the June 14, 2022 order. The text does not expressly state that the sealing request was granted or denied.
The detailed version
- North America Photon Infotech, Ltd. v. ZoomInfo LLC · No. 1:20-cv-02180
- John Cronan
- June 14, 2022
Background
North America Photon Infotech, Ltd. (“Photon”), the plaintiff and counterclaim-defendant, asked the court to approve sealing and redacting portions of its pretrial filings. Photon said the filings contained information about ZoomInfo LLC’s pricing and monitoring practices that ZoomInfo had previously identified as confidential. Photon filed the documents under seal in their entirety while it conferred with ZoomInfo about the specific material that should remain sealed or redacted.
Court’s Order
The court stated that Photon’s redactions to its memorandum of law and witness declarations appeared overbroad. As an example, the court identified substantial redactions of legal argument concerning the proper measure of damages, which had previously been publicly addressed in filed court materials and ZoomInfo’s memorandum of law. The court ordered Photon to file new redacted versions of the documents by June 17, 2022, along with a letter explaining each redaction in detail under the standard governing public access to judicial documents.
Disposition
The opinion text does not expressly say that Photon’s request to seal was granted or denied. It does state that Photon was required to submit revised redactions and particularized justifications. The order was signed by Judge John P. Cronan.
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