giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1250.0
7 pg
…at 2.
The 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…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1328.4
40 pg
…million.
Despite claiming defamation damages exceeding $80 million, Plaintiff routinely has
stonewalled our efforts to obtain basic information about the nature of the alleged defamation
and the scope of her alleged damages. Plaintiff’s frustration of our discovery efforts has…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1328.41
31 pg
…Second, the law throughout the
country is clear that routine, raw discovery materials submitted as exhibits to non-dispositive
discovery motions do not convert into “judicial documents” and trigger a right of public access.
The Court should find that these…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1257.2
21 pg
…what computer would you use?
A. My computer in my office.
Q. And so was part of your daily routine to go to your computer and check to see if you
had MindSpring messages?
A. No. That was at the…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1332.7
29 pg
…came forward to Maureen Callahan. I went to – I walked downstairs. I
testified that she is
walked around -- I have a usual routine that I do. In the morning I went
fearful for her life
out, I saw the same…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1328.18
50 pg
… INTRODUCTION
For the third time, Defendant attempts to elevate a routine discover dispute into
something over which she seeks sanctions, despite the complete lack of a basis for sanctions and
a complete lack of case law supporting her request.1…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.406.0
31 pg
…Second, the law throughout the
country is clear that routine, raw discovery materials submitted as exhibits to non-dispositive
discovery motions do not convert into “judicial documents” and trigger a right of public access.
The Court should find that these…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1334.1
29 pg
…fo1wai-d to Maureen Callahan. I went to - I walked downstairs. I
testified that she is
walked around -- I have a usual routine that I do. In the morning I went
fearful for her life
out, I saw the same…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.43.0
15 pg
…at *4 (noting that “[i]n camera
review is ‘a practice both long-standing and routine in cases involving claims of privilege.”).
Defendant’s current attempt to stall discovery is through the submission of improper,
sweeping objections alleging overbreadth of…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1325.7
30 pg
…communications with counsel) and her Motion to
Compel for Improper Objections. Even then, Defendant’s counsel refused to even take the
routine step of looking at Defendant’s email and other electronic documents to find responsive
documents, but produced, instead…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1218.22
31 pg
…Second, the law throughout the
country is clear that routine, raw discovery materials submitted as exhibits to non-dispositive
discovery motions do not convert into “judicial documents” and trigger a right of public access.
The Court should find that these…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1325.14
30 pg
…communications with counsel) and her Motion to
Compel for Improper Objections. Even then, Defendant’s counsel refused to even take the
routine step of looking at Defendant’s email and other electronic documents to find responsive
documents, but produced, instead…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.363.6
15 pg
…annoyance, embarrassment, oppression or
undue burden or expense that justice requires,” and courts routinely enter protective orders to
reduce the burden on subpoenaed non-parties to a case, as well as in cases where the discovery
sough is irrelevant. See…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1199.1_1
13 pg
…exists
for the disputed information to be treated as CONFIDENTIAL.
Protective Order at ¶ 11.
The Materials are sensitive in nature, and therefore fall squarely into the categories of
material over which courts routinely grant protection. C.f. Strategic Growth Intern.…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1240.0
5 pg
…override the public right of access to judicial documents.
For this reason, courts in this Circuit have routinely ordered unsealing of documents even
though the parties in those cases had agreed to protective orders or confidentiality provisions. See,
e.g.…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1199.16_1
12 pg
…the materials in this
case, and the materials at issue in the instant motion, are sensitive in nature, and therefore fall
squarely into the categories of material over which courts routinely grant protection. C.F.
Strategic Growth Intern., Inc. v…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1335.5
12 pg
…the materials in this
case, and the materials at issue in the instant motion, are sensitive in nature, and therefore fall
squarely into the categories of material over which courts routinely grant protection. C.F.
Strategic Growth Intern., Inc. v…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1067.0
10 pg
…or sealing order
and provides information in discovery, the information must remain sealed. This is incorrect.
First, courts in this Circuit have routinely ordered unsealing of documents in cases with
protective orders or confidentiality provisions. See, e.g., Gambale v…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1218.50
15 pg
…Ex. L ¶ 3. It
is therefore precisely the kind of order that courts routinely modify. In re EPDM, 255 F.R.D. at
319 (“Although such blanket protective orders may be useful in expediting the flow of pretrial
discovery materials…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.364.0
32 pg
…241
(internal quotation marks omitted). Discovery motions and the documents supporting them are
routinely filed in courts across the country without sealing and with the understanding that such
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documents are publicly accessible. And while the relatively recent history of…
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