CHRISTINA T., pseudonymously v. BELLAGIO LLC, et al.
CHRISTINA T., pseudonymously v. BELLAGIO LLC, et al.
Trial Court Opinion
1 Nevada Bar No. 10096 BRADLEY J. MYERS, ESQ. 2 Nevada Bar No. 8857 THE702FIRM INJURY ATTORNEYS 3 8335 West Flamingo Road Las Vegas, Nevada 89147 4 Telephone: (702) 776-3333 Facsimile: (702) 505-9787 5 E-Mail: [email protected] 6 GEOFFREY C. PARKER Nevada Bar No. 16952 7 HILTON PARKER LLC 7658 Slate Ridge Boulevard 8 Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068 Telephone: (614) 992-2277 9 Facsimile: (614) 927-5980 E-Mail: [email protected] 10 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 12 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 13 14 CHRISTINA T., pseudonymously, Case No. : 2:25-cv-145 15 Plaintiff, vs. STIPULATION AND ORDER 16 TO SEAL BELLAGIO LLC, et al., 17 Defendants. 18 19 Plaintiff Christina T. (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants Bellagio LLC; Desert Palace LLC; 20 Nevada Property 1 LLC; Mandalay Bay Resort Group LLC; MGM Grand Hotel LLC; MGM 21 Grand Propco LLC; Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC; and Wynn Las Vegas, LLC (collectively 22 “Defendants” and, together with Plaintiff, the “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel 23 of record, hereby agree and stipulate as follows: 24 1. On November 17, 2025, Plaintiff filed a Motion to Amend [53] Amended 25 Complaint with Exhibit 1 [Proposed] Second Amended Complaint. (ECF No. 82.) /// 26 27 /// 28 1 2. Defendants Bellagio LLC, Mandalay Bay Resort Group, LLC, MGM Grand Hotel, 2 LLC, MGM Grand Propco, LLC, Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC, and Wynn Las Vegas, LLC 3 have asserted that Exhibit 1 contains, and/or includes allegations that are based upon confidential 4 information that was disclosed in a separate proceeding, currently pending before the Court as 5 A.H. v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, Case No. 24-cv-01041-GMN-NJK (the “AH Litigation”), under the 6 protection of a Protective Order entered in the AH Litigation (the “AH Litigation PO”) and that 7 Plaintiff’s counsel obtained through their role as counsel for plaintiff in the AH Litigation. 8 Pursuant to the AH Litigation PO, such material requires protection from public disclosure. 9 3. The Parties agree, stipulate, and respectfully request that the Court temporarily seal 10 Exhibit 1 [Proposed] Second Amended Complaint attached to Plaintiff's Motion to Amend filed 11 on November 17, 2025 (ECF No. 82) to provide the parties an opportunity to meet and confer 12 regarding a potential resolution of Defendants’ contentions. 13 4. Good cause and compelling reasons exist to seal Exhibit 1 on the basis of 14 Defendants’ assertion of violation of the AH Litigation PO in order to remove Exhibit 1 from the 15 public eye while the parties work out this dispute because failure to seal eliminates the parties’ 16 ability to remediate the issue. 17 5. The parties stipulate and agree that Exhibit 1 should be sealed for sixty (60) days 18 from the date of entry of this Stipulation or the Court’s ruling on a further motion or stipulation 19 from the Parties relating to this issue, whichever is earlier. 20 21 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 22 DATED this 20th day of November, 2025. 23 /s/ Michael Kane /s/ Nicole Perry 24 GEOFFREY C. PARKER, ESQ. Patrick G. Byrne, Esq. Nevada Bar. No. 16952 Nevada Bar No. 7636 25 HILTON PARKER LLC Dawn Davis, Esq. Ohio Bar No. 0095742 Nevada Bar No. 13329 26 7658 Slate Ridge Boulevard SNELL & WILMER Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068 1700 South Pavilion Center Drive, Suite 700 27 MICHAEL C. KANE, ESQ. Las Vegas, NV 89135 Nevada Bar No. 10096 Telephone: (702) 784-5275 28 1 THE702FIRM INJURY ATTORNEYS [email protected] 8335 West Flamingo Road 2 Las Vegas, Nevada 89147 Bethany K. Biesenthal, Esq. (Pro Hac Vice) Counsel for Plaintiff Christina T. Allison L. McQueen, Esq. (Pro Hac Vice) 3 JONES DAY 110 North Wacker Drive, Suite 4800 4 Chicago, IL 60606 Telephone: (312) 782-3939 5 Facsimile: (312) 782-8585 Email: [email protected] 6 [email protected] 7 Nicole M. Perry, Esq. (Pro Hac Vice) JONES DAY 8 717 Texas Street, Suite 3300 Houston, TX 77002 9 Telephone: (832) 239-3939 Facsimile: (832) 239-3600 10 Email: [email protected] Counsel for Defendant Wynn Las Vegas, LLC 11 /s/ Kyle Orne /s/ Elise Yu 12 Nathanael R. Rulis, Esq. Kristen T. Gallagher, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 11259 Nevada Bar No. 9561 13 KEMP JONES, LLP MCDONALD CARANO LLP 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 1700 2300 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 1200 14 Las Vegas, NV 89169 Las Vegas, NV 89102 Telephone: (702) 385-6000 Telephone: (702) 873-4100 15 Facsimile: (702) 385-6001 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 16 Ann H. MacDonald, Esq. (Pro Hac Vice) David Sager, Esq. (Pro Hac Vice) ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP 17 DLA PIPER LLP (US) 233 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 7100 51 John F. Kennedy Parkway, Suite 120 Chicago, IL 60606 18 Short Hills, NJ 07078 Telephone: (312) 258-5548 Telephone: (973) 520-2570 Facsimile: (312) 258-5600 19 Facsimile: (973) 520-2551 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 20 Elise Yu, Esq. (Pro Hac Vice) Kyle T. Orne, Esq. (Pro Hac Vice) ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP 21 DLA PIPER LLP (US) 350 South Main Street, Suite 210 2525 East Camelback Road, Suite 1000 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 22 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Telephone: (734) 222-1556 Telephone: (480) 606-5172 Facsimile: (734) 222-1501 23 Facsimile: (480) 606-5527 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Counsel for Defendants Desert Palace LLC 24 Counsel for Defendant Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC 25 /// 26 /// 27 28 /s/Robert Ryan 1 Robert A. Ryan, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 12084 2 KNIGHT & RYAN PLLC 8880 W. Sunset Rd., Suite 130 3 Las Vegas, NV 89148 Telephone: (702) 462-6083 4 Facsimile: (702) 462-6048 Email: [email protected] 5 Counsel for Defendants Bellagio LLC, Nevada Property 1, LLC, Mandalay Bay Resort Group 6 LLC, MGM Grand Hotel LLC, and MGM 4 Grand Propco LLC
8 Having reviewed the parties’ stipulation, the Court finds compelling reasons to seal the exhibit to the motion to amend for sixty days from the date of this order. 9 As a preliminary matter, the Court analyzes this stipulation using the compelling reasons 10 standard (rather than the good cause standard) because the exhibit is a proposed amended complaint and therefore, more than tangentially related to the merits of the case. See Ctr for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Group, LLC,
809 F.3d 1092, 1097, 1101(9th Cir. 2016). The Court 12 finds the parties’ need for time to discuss Defendants’ assertion that the exhibit contains material marked confidential in another case constitutes a compelling reason. /d. But only to 13 temporarily seal the document. This is because the fact that a party has designated material 14 confidential under a protective order does not, standing alone, establish sufficient grounds to seal a filed document. See Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.,
331 F.3d 1122, 1133(9th 15 Cir. 2003); see also Beckman Indus., Inc. v. Int'l Ins. Co.,
966 F.2d 470, 476(9th Cir. 1992). So, if a party wishes the Court to keep the exhibit under seal after the sixty days has passed, that 16 party must file a motion to seal that provides compelling reasons beyond just the existence of a protective order. 17 18 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the parties’ stipulation (ECF No. 83) is GRANTED. 19 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of Court is kindly directed to SEAL Exhibit A to 20 the Motion to Amend Complaint (ECF No. 82-1). 21 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court will retain this exhibit under seal until January 20, 2026. If the Court does not receive a motion or stipulation establishing compelling reasons 22 for retaining the exhibit under seal before January 20, 2026, the Court will unseal the document. 24 DANIEL J. ALBREGTS 25 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 26 DATED: November 24, 2025 27 28
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