Stone Brewing Co., LLC v. Molson Coors Brewing Company

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8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA || STONE BREWING CO., LLC, | Case No.: 3:18-cv-00331-BEN-JMA Platt) ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS 13 Vv. . | FOR LEAVE TO FILE CERTAIN | || MOLSON COORS BREWING CO., READ ND ABIBIES 15 MILLERCOORS LLC, and DOES 1 through 25, inclusive, [ECF Nos. 366, 370, 373] _ Defendants.

18 _ Concurrent with the Parties’ briefing on Plaintiff Stone Brewing Company, LLC’s 19. Objection to the Order Denying Plaintiff's Motion re Discovery Dispute, the Parties || moved to file under seal certain portions of their briefs, declarations, and supporting |} exhibits, 22 The portions of the briefs, declarations, and exhibits sought to be sealed contain, 23 reference, or discuss commercially sensitive and proprietary business data. These || documents have been previously designated “Confidential” or “Confidential — Attorneys’ 25 Eyes Only” pursuant to the Protective Order issued in this case.. See ECF No. 54.

26 || Specifically, these exhibits contain business information including detailed business || strategy and detailed agreements with third parties.

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1 “[C]ompelling reasons sufficient to outweigh the public’s interest in disclosure and ||justify sealing court records exist when such court files might . . . become a vehicle for |}improper purposes, such as the use of records to . . . release trade secrets.” Kamakana v. || City & Cnty. of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, .1179 (9th Cir. 2006). A “trade secret may ||consist of any formula, pattern, device or compilation of information which is used in || one’s business, and which gives him an opportunity to obtain an advantage over ||competitors who do not know or use it.” The Court can seal proprietary information to protect a business from potential harm. See Obesity Research Institute, LLC v. Fiber □ || Research International, LLC, No. 15-CV-00595-BAS-MDD, 2017 WL 6270268, at *2 ||(S.D. Cal. Dec. 8, 2017) (granting motion to file documents containing proprietary || business information under seal).

12 Accordingly, the motions to seal is GRANTED. Redacted versions of the ||aforementioned documents have been filed on the public docket. The Clerk is directed to || file unredacted versions of the documents and exhibits lodged at Docket Numbers 368, 15 and 374 under seal.

16 ITISSOORDERED. = 1g || DATED: Octobe? £2020 . Ho er T. Beni 19 Umited States DistrictCourt || 28 .