IQVIA Inc. v. Medimpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.

8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA | IQVIA INC., a Delaware corporation; Case No. 3:21-cv-02081-GPC-DEB and IQVIA AG, a Swiss company, 12 ORDER GRANTING 3 Plaintiffs, DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO y FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER 14 , SEAL MEDIMPACT HEALTHCARE | SYSTEMS, INC., a California [ECF No. 34] corporation; and DALE BROWN, || individually, 17 Defendants. Judge: The Hon. Gonzalo P. Curiel Case No. 3:21-cv-02081-GPC-DEB 1 Before the Court is Defendants’ Motion to Seal Documents in Support of || Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (the “Motion to Seal’’). (ECF No. 34.) The Motion || to Seal seeks to seal from the public view the following documents: 4 e Portions of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil || Procedure 12(b)(6) (the “Motion”); and 6 e Certain exhibits or portions of exhibits attached to the Declaration of || Jennifer Bennett filed concurrently in support of the Motion (the “Bennett || Exhibits”).

9 Compelling reasons exist here to file under seal the requested portions of the || Motion and the Bennett Exhibits. Defendants seek to seal documents or references | to documents submitted in a prior arbitration under the rules of the DIFC-LCIA | Arbitration Centre, which require arbitration submissions to remain confidential.

13 || Defendants also seek to seal documents and references to documents that were | produced and subject to a protective order in a related case. Additionally, the || information to be sealed implicates the parties’ sensitive business information, || including trade secrets purportedly owned by Plaintiffs IQVIA Inc. and IQVIA AG; || and Defendants’ nonpublic prospective customers and confidential business || strategies, projects, and products. The disclosure of this information would risk || substantially harming or prejudicing Plaintiffs and Defendants. See McArdle v. || AT&T Mobility LLC, No. 09-cv-1117, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218070, at *13-14 || (N.D. Cal. Aug. 13, 2018).

22 Based on the foregoing, the Court finds that there are compelling reasons to || GRANT the Motion to Seal. It is ORDERED that portions of the Motion and the || identified Bennett Exhibits shall be SEALED until further order of this Court.

25 IT IS SO ORDERED.

06 Dated: March 22, 2022 7 sale As ( 27 Hon. Gonzalo P. Curiel 28 United States District Judge Case No. 3:21-cv-02081-GPC-DEB ] 1] 1 Case No. 3:21-cv-02081-GPC-DEB