Emily Odermatt v. The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Health System Inc., and...

akerman Row 1. Mes ~ Akerman LLP 1251 Avenue of the Americas 37th Floor New York, NY 10020 D: 212 259 6461 T: 212 880 3800 F: 212 880 8965 DirF: 212 259 7196 July 31, 2025 [email protected] VIA ECF Honorable Jennifer L. Rochon United States District Judge Southern District of New York Pearl Street New York, New York 10007 Re: Odermatt v. The Mount Sinai Hospital Civ. 5250 (JLR) Dear Judge Rochon: On behalf of our client, Defendant The Mount Sinai Hospital (“Mount Sinai’ or the Hospital”), (named herein as “The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Health System Inc., and Mount Sinai Hospitals Group, Inc.”), I write in connection with Mount Sinai’s motion for summary judgment. Pursuant to the Court’s Individual Rule 4.B, I respectfully request that the Court grant leave for Mount Sinai to file documents under seal. The documents that Mount Sinai seeks to file under seal are: (1) Plaintiff Emily Odermatt's medical records from September 26, 2023- January 19, 2024. Mount Sinai seeks to file these documents under seal because they contain confidential medical information for Plaintiff.

Accordingly, Mount Sinai requests that the Court permit it to file under seal the documents annexed as Exhibit 14 to the declaration of the undersigned in support of Mount Sinai’s motion for summary judgment. . □ Defendants' request to file Exhibit 4 to Rory McEvoy's Declaratio : in Support of Mount Sinai's Motion for summary judgment is Respectfully submitted, GRANTED. Although the common law right of public access to Judicial documents is "firmly rooted in our nation's history,” this /s! Rory J. McEvoy right is not absolute and courts "must balance competing considerations" against the presumption of access. Lugosch v. Rory J. McEvoy Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110, 119-20 (3d Cir. 2006) _,.. (quotation marks and citation omitted). There is a strong privacy ce. Emily Odermatt, Pro Se Plaintiff interest in medical information. See, e.g., Thor Equities, LLC v. Factory Mut. Ins. Co., No. 20-cv-033800 (AT), 2023 WL 638268 at *1 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 29, 2023). Therefore, the Court shall maintain Dkt. 152, which contains Odermatt's medical records, under seal. The Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to terminat akerman.com the motion at Dkt. 151. SO ORDERED.

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