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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`IN RE APPLE INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION,
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`Case No. 4:19-CV-2033-YGR
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`ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN
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`PART ADMINISTRATIVE MOTIONS TO SEAL
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`Re: Dkt. Nos. 195, 201
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`Defendants filed an administrative motion to file under seal portions of their opposition brief
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`and exhibits in support of their opposition to the motion for class certification. (Dkt. No. 195.)
`Specifically, defendants seek to seal portions of their opposition brief and exhibits 6, 7, and 9 to
`defense counsel declaration filed in support of their opposition to the motion for class certification.
`(Id.) Plaintiff’s counsel filed a declaration in connection with the motion, stating that he does not
`object to the redacted portions of opposition brief and exhibits 6 and 9 being filed publicly. (Dkt.
`No. 198.) He also does not object to exhibit 7 being filed publicly except for plaintiff’s account
`numbers and transactions in other securities. (Id.) Thus, finding good cause, the Court hereby
`GRANTS defendants’ administrative motion to seal with respect to the account numbers and
`transactions in other securities contained in exhibit 7. The motion is otherwise DENIED.
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`Plaintiff also filed an administrative motion to file under seal portions of its reply brief and
`certain exhibits thereto. (Dkt. No. 201.) Specifically, plaintiff seeks to seal portions of its reply
`brief and exhibits 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11 to plaintiff’s counsel’s reply declaration filed in support of the
`motion for class certification. (Id.) Defendant Apple, Inc.’s finance manager filed a declaration,
`averring that exhibits 5, 8, and 9 and excerpts in the reply brief that reference those exhibits contain
`confidential business information. (Dkt. No. 203.) Plaintiff’s counsel filed a notice withdrawing the
`confidentiality designations as to the excerpts submitted as exhibits 10 and 11 and stating that he
`does not object to the redacted portions of the reply brief that reference those exhibits. (Dkt. No.
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`204.) Thus, finding good cause, the Court hereby GRANTS plaintiff’s administrative motion to seal
`with respect to exhibits 5, 8, and 9 and excerpts in the reply brief that reference those exhibits. The
`motion is otherwise DENIED.
`This Order terminates Docket Number 195 and 201.
`IT IS SO ORDERED.
`Dated: February 4, 2022
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`____________________________________
` YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS
`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
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