Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Keystone Foods Holdings Limited
- Andrew Carter
- 1:19-cv-10125
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 1
Tyson Foods v. Keystone Foods Holdings: Judge Carter granted applications to seal confidential discovery materials.
Tyson Foods, Inc., Keystone Foods Holdings Limited, and the other defendants were affected because the court granted sealing applications covering confidential materials submitted in their discovery dispute; public access to those materials was limited.
What happened
In Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Keystone Foods Holdings Limited, the parties sought to seal materials submitted during a discovery dispute.
The materials included confidential sales data, projections, and other confidential corporate information. The court said the interests in public disclosure were at their lowest in this context.
The court granted both sealing applications. The provided metadata lists Judge Andrew Carter, while the opinion text identifies Gabriel W. Gorenstein as the magistrate judge who issued the order.
The detailed version
- Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Keystone Foods Holdings Limited · No. 1:19-cv-10125
- Andrew Carter
- Oct. 5, 2023
Background
The applications to seal, filed at Docket numbers 186 and 197, arose from a discovery dispute. The requested redactions covered confidential sales data, projections, and other confidential corporate matters.
Court’s Analysis
The court stated that the interests favoring disclosure were at their lowest in the context of this discovery dispute. It balanced the interests involved and found that sealing was proper.
Disposition
The court granted both applications to seal. The supplied metadata identifies Andrew Carter as the judge, but the opinion text identifies Gabriel W. Gorenstein as the United States magistrate judge who issued the order; the signature line is unclear in the provided text.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.