The Honorable Lewis J. Liman United States District Court Southern District of New York Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse 500 Pearl Street New York, NY 10007 Re: Letter Motion for Approval to Seal in In re Bystolic Antitrust Litig., Case No. 1:20-cv-
Dear Judge Liman: I write on behalf of the Forest Defendants in the above-captioned litigation pursuant to ¶ 18 of the Protective Order, ECF No. 148, and this Court’s Individual Practices in Civil Cases ¶¶ 1.B and
Paragraph 18 of the Protective Order provides that, in the event a party makes an under-seal filing, “the Court will hold the motion to seal in abeyance for fourteen (14) calendar days for the Producing Party to file a letter brief in support of any proposed redactions, and as exhibits thereto, proposed redacted public versions of any sealed papers consistent with Rule 2(G).” Accordingly, Defendants submit this letter respectfully requesting that the Court approve the proposed redactions to the amended complaints.
The proposed redactions cover the detailed financial and other commercially sensitive terms of the agreements produced to the Plaintiffs on a “confidential, outside counsel only basis.” See Joint The Honorable Lewis J. Liman March 8, 2022 Case Management Plan and Scheduling Order No. 1 ¶ 13, ECF No. 82; Protective Order ¶¶ 3, 10, ECF No. 148.
Ltd., LLC, v. Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., 2015 WL 4298572, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. July 15, 2015) (finding that “disclosure would cause ‘significant and irreparable competitive injury to both Defendants and [a] Non-Party Entity’ because the information was ‘commercially sensitive’”).