S.F. v. New York City Department of Education

BriGUIAHUNDLEY.

William T. DeVinney Direct Dial: (703) 942-8076 [email protected] November 16, 2022 Delivered Via ECF and Overnight Delivery Hon. Paul A. Engelmayer United States District Court Judge Southern District of New York Foley Square New York, NY 10007 Re: SF. etaly, New York City Department of Education, Case No. 1:21-cv-11147-PAE Judge Engelmayer, Tam counsel for Plaintiffs in et al vp. New York City Department of Education, Case No. 1:21-cv-11147-PAE. Plaintiffs’ motion for attorneys’ fees is to be filed today. Plaintiffs request, under the Court’s Individual Practice 4.B.2, that the Court allow the Plaintiffs to submit Exhibit A and Exhibit B to their motion under seal.

The Plaintiffs make this request because the exhibits contain confidential infor- mation regarding a minor’s name, medical disability, and the treatment he re- ceives for that disability, throughout the documents. Courts in this circuit regular- ly allow medical information or records to be filed under seal, finding that parties have a strong privacy interest in their medical information. See, e.g., McGuirk ».

Swiss Re Fin, Servs. Corp., No. 14-cv-9516, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197814, 2015 WL 13661685, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 30, 2015) ("Medical information is among the types of information often made subject to a sealing order."); Dilworth ». Goldberg, No. 10—CV-2224 JMF, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106258, 2014 WL 3798631, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 1, 2014) ("Exhibits S, T, and Z were properly redacted, as they comprised Plaintiff's private medical records.”).

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Granted. SO ORDERED.

(J ‘ath A □□□ 4A Joys PAUL A. ENGELMAYER United States District Judge November 17, 2022 . □