UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION

ZOTEC PARTNERS, LLC, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) No. 1:19-cv-02287-JPH-DLP ) TEXAS RADIOLOGY ASSOCIATES, LLP, ) ) Defendant. )

ORDER ON MOTION TO MAINTAIN UNDER SEAL

This matter comes before the Court on the Plaintiff’s Motion to Maintain Brief in Support of Remand and Exhibit 1 Under Seal (Dkt. 19). For the reasons set forth below, the Court finds good cause to maintain the requested documents under seal. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1)(G) provides that a court may, “for good cause,” enter an order “requiring that a trade secret or other confidential research, development, or commercial information not be revealed or be revealed only in a specified way.” Before ordering a document be maintained under seal, the Court must make a finding of “good cause” to seal that record. See Citizens First Nat. Bank of Princeton v. Cincinnati Ins. Co.,

(7th Cir. 1994). Plaintiff requests that the Court seal its Brief in Support of Motion for Remand and a billing services agreement between the Plaintiff and Defendant. The Plaintiff argues that these documents contain trade secrets, confidential commercial information, and sales processes and plans. The Defendants filed a response on July 17, 2019, arguing that Plaintiff has not established good cause to seal the requested documents. The Plaintiff filed a reply brief on July 24, 2019, arguing that good cause exists because the documents requested to be sealed contain confidential sales processes and plans. After reviewing the documents in question, the Court concludes that the Plaintiff's exhibit contains commercial information, including sales processes and plans, which fall under the wide umbrella of protection provided to trade secrets. The Plaintiffs Brief in Support of Remand takes direct quotations from Plaintiffs Exhibit 1, the Billing Services Agreement. Accordingly, the Court does find good cause to GRANT the Plaintiffs Motion. Plaintiffs Brief in Support of Remand and Exhibit 1 to Plaintiff's Brief (Dkts. 18-1 18-2) shall be maintained UNDER SEAL.

So ORDERED.

Date: 8/14/2019

Doris L. Pryor United States Magistrate Judge Southern District of Indiana

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