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9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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11 | 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
15 | SYSTEMS, INC., a California [ECF No. 34]
corporation; and DALE BROWN,
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17 Defendants. Judge: The Hon. Gonzalo P. Curiel
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1 Before the Court is Defendants’ Motion to Seal Documents in Support of
2 || Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (the “Motion to Seal’’). (ECF No. 34.) The Motion
3 || 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
5 || Procedure 12(b)(6) (the “Motion”); and
6 e Certain exhibits or portions of exhibits attached to the Declaration of
7 || Jennifer Bennett filed concurrently in support of the Motion (the “Bennett
8 || Exhibits”).
9 Compelling reasons exist here to file under seal the requested portions of the
10 || Motion and the Bennett Exhibits. Defendants seek to seal documents or references
11 | to documents submitted in a prior arbitration under the rules of the DIFC-LCIA
12 | Arbitration Centre, which require arbitration submissions to remain confidential.
13 || Defendants also seek to seal documents and references to documents that were
14 | produced and subject to a protective order in a related case. Additionally, the
15 || information to be sealed implicates the parties’ sensitive business information,
16 || including trade secrets purportedly owned by Plaintiffs IQVIA Inc. and IQVIA AG;
17 || and Defendants’ nonpublic prospective customers and confidential business
18 || strategies, projects, and products. The disclosure of this information would risk
19 || substantially harming or prejudicing Plaintiffs and Defendants. See McArdle v.
20 || AT&T Mobility LLC, No. 09-cv-1117, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218070, at *13-14
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22 Based on the foregoing, the Court finds that there are compelling reasons to
23 || GRANT the Motion to Seal. It is ORDERED that portions of the Motion and the
24 || 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
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