Filed: Nov. 04, 2019
Latest Update: Nov. 04, 2019
Summary: Order PATRICIA D. BARKSDALE , Magistrate Judge . On October 21, 2019, the Court directed the plaintiff to provide the clerk's office hardcopy versions of the following exhibits to be temporarily placed under seal. Doc. No. Ex. Associated Filing Doc. 263-10 9 Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude or Limit Opinions of Defendants' Experts Doc. 263-21 20 Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude or Limit Opinions of Defendants' Experts Doc. 286 at 2. The Court explained it would dire
Summary: Order PATRICIA D. BARKSDALE , Magistrate Judge . On October 21, 2019, the Court directed the plaintiff to provide the clerk's office hardcopy versions of the following exhibits to be temporarily placed under seal. Doc. No. Ex. Associated Filing Doc. 263-10 9 Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude or Limit Opinions of Defendants' Experts Doc. 263-21 20 Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude or Limit Opinions of Defendants' Experts Doc. 286 at 2. The Court explained it would direc..
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PATRICIA D. BARKSDALE, Magistrate Judge.
On October 21, 2019, the Court directed the plaintiff to provide the clerk's office hardcopy versions of the following exhibits to be temporarily placed under seal.
Doc. No. Ex. Associated Filing
Doc. 263-10 9 Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude or Limit Opinions of Defendants' Experts
Doc. 263-21 20 Plaintiff's Motion to Exclude or Limit Opinions of Defendants' Experts
Doc. 286 at 2. The Court explained it would direct the clerk to file the exhibits on the public docket unless, by November 1, 2019, the defendants filed a motion and memorandum of law showing the presumption of public access to the exhibits is overcome. Doc. 286 at 2.
The plaintiff timely filed the two exhibits. Docs. S-291, S-291-1. The defendants have filed no motion to maintain the exhibits under seal, and the deadline to do so has passed. By November 6, 2019, the clerk must unseal Docs. S-291 and S-291-1 and replace the placeholder at Doc. 263-10 with Doc. 291, and the placeholder at Doc. 263-21 with Doc. 291-1.
At the settlement conference in March 2019, Doc. 250, to foster frank discussions, I explained I would recuse myself upon request. A party requested recusal after decisions on motions to seal portions of the record and any other then-pending motions. Having now decided those motions, I recuse myself and direct the clerk to reassign this case to another United States Magistrate Judge. The parties agreed I may continue to discuss settlement with them on an ex parte basis.
Ordered.
