Motion to Seal — DV Diamond Club of Flint, LLC v. U.S. Small Business Administration (Dkt. 26, E.D. Mich.)

Summary

Plaintiffs' Motion for Leave to File Documents Under Seal, with brief in support, in DV Diamond Club of Flint, LLC v. United States Small Business Administration, Case No. 4:20-cv-10899, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, filed April 26, 2020 as ECF No. 26. Citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2 and 26(c) and E.D. Mich. LR 5.3, the motion indexes the declarations of Matthew J. Hoffer, Larry Byrne and a third declarant, with lender correspondence, and states the defendants do not object. The plaintiffs seek to seal the names of the lenders and their employees and the specific amount of loans sought by specific plaintiff applicants. The brief argues that naming the lenders would open them to harassment aimed at suppressing the plaintiffs' expressive activities, and that disclosing the amounts for individual clubs tends to uncover the entities' pay strategy.

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