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Summary: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER LYLE E. STROM , Senior District Judge . This matter is before the Court on Prism's Proposed Redactions to the Trial Transcript (Filing No. 626 ). The defendant did not file any opposition to the proposed redactions. After reviewing the motion, and the applicable law, the Court finds as follows. LAW "There is a common-law right of access to judicial records." IDT Corp. v. eBay, 709 F.3d 1220 , 1222 (8th Cir. 2013)(citing Nixon v. Warner Commc'ns, Inc., 435 U.S.
Summary: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER LYLE E. STROM , Senior District Judge . This matter is before the Court on Prism's Proposed Redactions to the Trial Transcript (Filing No. 626 ). The defendant did not file any opposition to the proposed redactions. After reviewing the motion, and the applicable law, the Court finds as follows. LAW "There is a common-law right of access to judicial records." IDT Corp. v. eBay, 709 F.3d 1220 , 1222 (8th Cir. 2013)(citing Nixon v. Warner Commc'ns, Inc., 435 U.S. 5..
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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
LYLE E. STROM, Senior District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on Prism's Proposed Redactions to the Trial Transcript (Filing No. 626). The defendant did not file any opposition to the proposed redactions. After reviewing the motion, and the applicable law, the Court finds as follows.
LAW
"There is a common-law right of access to judicial records." IDT Corp. v. eBay, 709 F.3d 1220, 1222 (8th Cir. 2013)(citing Nixon v. Warner Commc'ns, Inc., 435 U.S. 589, 597, 98 S.Ct. 1306, 55 L.Ed.2d 570 (1978). The Eighth Circuit has applied the common-law right of access to civil proceedings. See Webster Groves School District v. Pulitzer Publishing Co., 898 F.2d 1371, 1376-77 (8th Cir. 1990). "[C]onfidential information may be so embedded in a pleading that line-by-line redaction is impossible, or redaction might be insufficient to protect the interests that justify sealing." IDT Corp., 709 F.3d at 1224 (citing In re Search Warrant for Secretarial Area Outside Office of Gunn, 855 F.2d 569, 574 (8th Cir. 1988); Goff v. Graves, 362 F.3d 543, 550 (8th Cir. 2004)).
REDACTIONS TO THE TRIAL TRANSCRIPT
After reviewing Prism's proposed redactions, the Court finds that redactions are proper in certain instances. However, the Court does not agree with all of Prism's proposed redactions. Some of the proposed redactions are overly broad and do not meet the confidential or proprietary nature that is cured by redaction. In addition, some of the proposed redactions are already in sealed transcripts, therefore, not requiring any redaction. The following shall be redacted from the trial transcript:
VOL. PAGE REDACTION
I 22 Lines 4-5.
I 22 Sentence beginning on line 13, ending on
line 14.
I 22 Sentence beginning on line 20, ending on
line 22.
I 23 Sentence beginning on line 2, ending on
line 5.
I 23 Lines 6-7.
I 25 Sentence beginning on line 18, ending on
line 21.
I 57 Lines 19-23.
V 1088 Lines 6-9.
V 1094 Lines 5-12.
V 1094 Sentence beginning on line 16, ending on
line 17.
V 1094 Line 19 to line 21 ending on "discount".
V 1095 Line 1, redact numbers.
V 1106 Line 17, redact number.
V 1106 Line 20, redact number.
VI 1250 Line 22, redact the dollar amount.
VI 1253 Line 13, redact the dollar amount.
VI 1294 Line 1, redact the dollar amount.
VI 1294 Line 5, redact the dollar amount.
VI 1295 Line 21, redact the dollar amount.
VI 1304 Line 19, redact the dollar amount.
VI 1333 Line 5, redact the dollar amount.
XII 2579 Line 23, redact the dollar amount.
XII 2685 Sentence beginning on line 21, ending on
line 22.
IT IS ORDERED that the court reporter shall make the above mentioned redactions 10 days after the filing of this order.
