Corbello v. DeVito, No. 2:2008cv00867 - Document 387 (D. Nev. 2011)
Court Description: ORDER granting Plaintiff's 383 Motion to Seal Certain Exhibits for her Reply in Support of Motion for Reconsideration. Signed by Magistrate Judge Peggy A. Leen on 1/18/11. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - ECS)
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Corbello v. DeVito Doc. 387 1 Gregory H. Guillot ggmark@radix.net 2 Admitted Pro Hac Vice GREGORY H. GUILLOT, P.C. 3 13455 Noel Road, Suite 1000 Dallas, TX 75240 4 Telephone: (972) 774-4560 Facsimile: (214) 515-0411 5 John L. Krieger, (Nevada Bar No. 6023) 6 JKrieger@LRLaw.com LEWIS AND ROCA LLP 7 3993 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 600 Las Vegas, NV 89169 8 Telephone: (702) 949-8200 Facsimile: (702) 949-8389 9 George L. Paul 10 GPaul@LRLaw.com Admitted Pro Hac Vice 11 Robert H. McKirgan, RMckirgan@LRLaw.com 12 Admitted Pro Hac Vice LEWIS AND ROCA LLP 13 40 North Central Avenue, Suite 1900 Phoenix, AZ 85004 14 Telephone: (602) 262-5326 Facsimile: (602) 734-3857 15 Attorneys for Plaintiff, 16 DONNA CORBELLO 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 18 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 19 DONNA CORBELLO, an individual, Case No. 2:08-cv-00867-RCJ-PAL 20 21 Plaintiff, vs. 22 THOMAS GAETANO DEVITO, an individual, et al., 23 Defendants. 24 25 PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE CERTAIN EXHIBITS UNDER SEAL FOR HER REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION (DOC. 347) Plaintiff Donna Corbello, by her attorneys, and pursuant to the Stipulated Protective 26 Order (Doc. 94) entered into by the parties, and the Court’s Protective Order Governing 27 Confidentiality of Documents entered on January 5, 2009 (“Order Regarding Sealing 28 Requirements”) (Doc. 95), herewith requests leave to file certain documents under seal as Dockets.Justia.com Case 2:08-cv-00867-RCJ-PAL Document 383 Filed 01/13/11 Page 2 of 6 1 exhibits to her Reply to Defendant’s Response to Motion for Reconsideration and Supplement 2 (Docs. 354 & 355), to be filed on or before January 17, 2011. 3 4 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES Pursuant to her obligations under the Stipulated Protective Order and Order Regarding 5 Sealing Requirements, Plaintiff seeks an order permitting her to file the following documents 6 under seal, which were produced by Defendants Frankie Valli, Robert J. Gaudio, Marshall 7 Brickman, Eric S. Elice, DSHT, Inc., Dodger Theatricals, Inc., and/or JB Viva Vegas, LP (the 8 “New Defendants”), and/or by third party Kevin Kinsella (“Kinsella”), and marked 9 “CONFIDENTIAL” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” thereby, which she intends to attach as 10 exhibits to her Reply: 11 12 13 JB-0038550-0038553, consisting of undated “speeches” by the Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi and Frankie Valli characters in Jersey Boys. JB-0033160, JB-0028619, JB-0028644, JB-0029170, JB-0029171, JB-0029172, 14 JB-0028420, JB-0028639, JB-0028647, JB-0028655, consisting of various emails 15 to and from Defendant Elice. 16 JB-0026531-0026537, JB-0026663, consisting of excerpts from the script change 17 master archive allegedly maintained by Defendant, Dodger Theatricals for the 18 New York production of Jersey Boys. 19 20 21 JB-0053173, consisting of various Stage Manager Reports. 22 23 JB-0074393, JB-0053465, JB-0053449, JB-0053388, JB-0053315, JB-0053289, JB-0002932, consisting of 1 page of a draft script for Jersey Boys dated “8/11/04.” JB-0072056-0072057, JB-0072061-JB-0072062, JB-0072066, JB-0072080-JB- 24 0072083, and JB-0072098, consisting of excerpts from an outline/treatment for 25 Jersey Boys, dated February 13, 2004. 26 JB-0048300-0048317, consisting of an undated outline/treatment for Jersey Boys. 27 28 2 Case 2:08-cv-00867-RCJ-PAL Document 383 1 Filed 01/13/11 Page 3 of 6 KINSELLA-006981, KINSELLA-006832, KINSELLA-007619, KINSELLA- 2 007392, KINSELLA-008247, KINSELLA-000013, consisting of various letters 3 and emails addressed to Kevin Kinsella. 4 5 6 JB-0052032-JB-0052033, JB-0048086, consisting of undated correspondence that was originally attached to unidentified emails. JB-0060655, JB-0043011, JB-0047399, JB-0038555, JB-0047821, JB-0043251, 7 JB-0043663, JB-0043986, JB-0049851, JB-0044570, JB-0038469, JB-0038541, 8 JB-0038582, JB-0048145, JB-0065311, JB-0044357, JB-0062838, JB-0044374, 9 JB-0050071, JB-0048145, JB-0045717, JB-0043986, JB-0043177, JB-0043989, 10 JB-0046449, consisting of the first pages of various undated scripts and fragments 11 of scripts for Jersey Boys. 12 JB-0038304-JB-0038307, consisting of “Bob Gaudio notes” dated June 25, 2004 . 13 JB-0027611, JB-0027621, JB-0027625, consisting of emails which had 14 15 attachments that were not produced with the emails. 16 17 KINSELLA-008563, consisting of emails from Michael David to Kevin Kinsella and others concerning the Jersey Boys movie. JB-0065233-JB-0065236, consisting of various emails to and from Rick Elice 18 relating to issues regarding Jersey Boys profits adjudicated in Frankie Valli’s 19 divorce proceeding. 20 JB-0002916, consisting of a cover page for a Jersey Boys script. 21 JB-0022560-JB-0023388, consisting of a production disk from the New 22 Defendants dated May 26, 2009, bearing a label from Summitt Reprographics, 23 and including scripts and related material in non-searchable pdf format. 24 JB-0033050 to JB-0074364, consisting of a production disk from the New 25 Defendants dated October 26, 2010, bearing a label from ABC Digital Solutions 26 and including tens of thousands of pages of scripts and related material, in non- 27 searchable single page TIFF file format. 28 3 Case 2:08-cv-00867-RCJ-PAL Document 383 Filed 01/13/11 Page 4 of 6 1 I. ARGUMENT 2 There is an exception to the normal presumption of access to judicial records, for “sealed 3 discovery document[s] [attached] to a non-dispositive motion,” such that “the usual presumption 4 of the public's right of access is rebutted.” Kamakana v. City & County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 5 1172, 1179-1180 (9th Cir. 2006) (citing Phillips v. General Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1213 6 (9th Cir. 2002)). The public has less of a need for access to court records attached only to non7 dispositive motions because those documents are often “‘unrelated, or only tangentially related, 8 to the underlying cause of action.’” Id. (quoting Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart, 467 U.S. 20, 33, 9 104 S. Ct. 2199, 81 L. Ed. 2d 17 (1984)). Moreover, “public policies that support the right of 10 access to dispositive motions, and related materials, do not apply with equal force to non11 dispositive materials.” Id. (citing Phillips, 307 F.3d at 1213). Finally, when a district court 12 grants a protective order to seal documents during discovery, “it already has determined that 13 ‘good cause’ exists to protect this information from being disclosed to the public by balancing 14 the needs for discovery against the need for confidentiality.” Id. Accordingly, “good cause” 15 exists for the filing of the foregoing documents under seal. 16 17 the Pursuant to the Stipulated Protective Order herein, Plaintiff has an obligation to maintain confidentiality of any document marked “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 18 CONFIDENTIAL” by an opposing party, and the documents identified above were so marked by 19 the New Defendants and Mr. Kinsella. Accordingly, Plaintiff may not file the documents with 20 the Court without obtaining an Order and/or filing them under seal. Whereas, Plaintiff’s Reply is 21 not a dispositive motion, the filing of these documents under seal falls within the exception to the 22 general presumption of public access carved out by the courts of this Circuit for documents 23 attached to non-dispositive motions. Accordingly, leave to file the subject documents under seal 24 should be granted. 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 /// 4 1 II. CONCLUSION 2 IN VIEW OF THE ABOVE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that her present motion be 3 granted. 4 5 Dated: January 13, 2011 RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED: 6 7 8 9 /s/Gregory H. Guillot Gregory H. Guillot George L. Paul John L. Krieger Robert H. McKirgan Attorneys for Plaintiff, Donna Corbello 10 11 12 13 IT IS SO ORDERED: 14 15 16 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE DATED: January 18, 2011 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 Case 2:08-cv-00867-RCJ-PAL Document 383 1 2 Filed 01/13/11 Page 6 of 6 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(b), I, Gregory H. Guillot, hereby certify that on January 13, 3 2011, I electronically filed the foregoing document and this Certificate of Service with the Clerk 4 of Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notifications of such filing to the following: 5 L. Bradley Hancock Christopher B. Payne 6 Greenberg Traurig, LLP 1000 Louisiana 7 Suite 1800 Houston, TX 77002 8 Booker T. Evans, Jr. 9 Greenburg Traurig, LLP 2375 East Camelback Road 10 Suite 700 Phoenix, AZ 85016 11 Alma Chao 12 Greenburg Traurig, LLP 3773 Howard Hughes Parkway 13 Suite 500 North Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 14 Attorneys for Thomas Gaetano DeVito 15 16 Daniel M. Mayeda LEOPOLD, PETRICH & SMITH, P.C. 17 2049 Century Park East, Suite 3110 Los Angeles, California 90067-3274 18 David S. Korzenik 19 MILLER KORZENIK SOMMERS LLP 488 Madison Avenue, Suite 1120 20 New York, New York 10022-5702 21 Samuel S. Lionel Todd Kennedy 22 LIONEL, SAWYER & COLLINS 300 So. 4th Street #1700 23 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 24 Attorneys for Defendants Frankie Valli, Robert J. Gaudio, Marshall Brickman, Eric S. Elice, Des McAnuff, DSHT, Inc., and Dodger Theatricals, Ltd. 25 26 27 /s/Gregory H. Guillot 28 6
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