giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1250.0
7 pg
…Reality: Courts routinely seal records concerning underage victims – well beyond
replacing their names with initials – and victims do not forego their rights to privacy
merely because they have played a role in a civil or criminal case against perpetrators.
As…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1264.0
1 pg
…That protocol, which was first put in place more than two years ago, balances
the presumption of public access to judicial documents against the privacy, reputational, and
other countervailing interests that support the continued sealing of certain of the previously…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1073.0
22 pg
…20 Page 3 of 22
her counsel agreed, would be honored subject to the few very limited situations in which the
public right to access the court files overcomes the privacy interests at stake.
ARGUMENT
I. Weight of Presumption
Each…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1240.0
5 pg
…have failed to meet the burden to demonstrate that any of these
documents should remain sealed.
Generalized Privacy Concerns Do Not Warrant Sealing
This Court has already held that generalized concerns about embarrassment are insufficient
to support sealing judicial documents…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1199.16_1
12 pg
…party witnesses. Release of such
confidential information outside of the litigation could expose the parties to ‘annoyance,
embarrassment, [and] oppression and result in significant injury to one or more of the parties’
business or privacy interests.”
- Defendant, Ghislaine Maxwell, March…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1242.0
9 pg
…Brown v. Maxwell, 929 F.3d 41,
47 n.13 (2d Cir. 2019) (noting that it is the “privacy interest of those who resist disclose” that serve
as a countervailing interest) (quoting S.E.C. v. TheStreet.Com, 273 F…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1325.19
20 pg
… Ms. Maxwell objects to the Interrogatories to the extent they seek information that
is confidential and implicates Ms. Maxwell’s privacy interests.
9. Ms. Maxwell incorporates by reference every general objection set forth above
into each specific response set forth…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1332.15
11 pg
…On March 18, 2016, this Court entered a Protective Order (DE 62) for the privacy of the
parties and deponents. Non-Party Jane Doe 43 was a fact witness and deponent in the Giuffre v.
Maxwell case. She provided both…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.17
25 pg
… Ms. Maxwell objects to the Requests to the extent they seek information that is
confidential and implicates Ms. Maxwell’s privacy interests.
9. Ms. Maxwell incorporates by reference every general objection set forth above
into each specific response set forth…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1199.4_1
4 pg
…the identity of Ms.
Giuffre's minor children, and to protect Ms. Giuffre's privacy interests which are naturally
implicated in the potential release of domestic violence records. Colorado statutes recognize and
protect the privacy of domestic violence victims, see…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1335.5
12 pg
…party witnesses. Release of such
confidential information outside of the litigation could expose the parties to ‘annoyance,
embarrassment, [and] oppression and result in significant injury to one or more of the parties’
business or privacy interests.”
- Defendant, Ghislaine Maxwell, March…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1248.0
6 pg
…other. As discussed in more detail below, the former group can maintain privacy by narrowly
redacting information that would identify those who have not previously been publicly identified
1
As with prior filings, counsel for Intervenors have seen only Ms…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1113.0
7 pg
…Second, the proposed disclosure could
“infringe on the privacy or other countervailing interests against
disclosure of the Does [who are providing input in Maxwell] without
their having notice and an opportunity to be heard.” (Id.) In
light of those concerns…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.201.0
5 pg
…identity of these non-party potential witnesses,
Ms. Giuffre has fittingly marked her Rule 26 Disclosures as confidential. The designation is
made in good faith to protect these individuals and their privacy, who are victims of sexual abuse
(or, alternatively…
giuffre-maxwell
1320-17
25 pg
… Ms. Maxwell objects to the Requests to the extent they seek information that is
confidential and implicates Ms. Maxwell’s privacy interests.
9. Ms. Maxwell incorporates by reference every general objection set forth above
into each specific response set forth…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.898.0
4 pg
…See ECF No. 892.
The Newspapers are aware of the general privacy interests at stake in this case, and that
the parties and witnesses relied on the existence of the protective orders in place when providing
testimony and evidence in…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.35.0
31 pg
…or
unduly burdensome are not acceptable, and will be overruled.”).
Maxwell’s general objection to producing material that implicates “privacy interests” is
equally misplaced. Maxwell does not have a “privacy interest” in the illegal sexual abuse and
trafficking of Ms…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.69.2
21 pg
…embarrassment, loss of self-esteem, loss of standing in the community, loss of
dignity and invasion of privacy in her public and private life not less than
$30,000,000.00.
a. Computation Analysis
i. Under New York law, defamation…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.363.6
15 pg
…holding that trial court departed
from the essential requirements of law by granting deposition of party’s gynecologist which was
only meant to invade privacy and intimidate and harass the party).
Defendant also has a number of requests (Request nos…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.40.0
8 pg
…3, Ms. Giuffre struck the word “implicates” and
replaced it with “is covered by” because many things can “implicate” but only
those things that are actually “covered by a common law and statutory privacy
protection” should be deemed “confidential”. Ms…
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