Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JENNIFER L. COOK, Case No. 22-cv-02485-AMO Plaintiff, 8 ORDER RE OMNIBUS v. SEALING MOTION 9 10 META PLATFORMS, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 282 Defendant. 11 12 United States District Court 13 Now pending before the Court is the parties’ Joint Omnibus Sealing Motion regarding 14 certain documents submitted in connection with Plaintiff’s Motion for Class Certification, Dkt. No. 15 236, and Meta’s Motion to Exclude the Opinions and Testimony of Richard Eichmann and Dr. Northern District of California 16 Jonathan Hochman, Dkt. Nos. 255-56. 17 Having considered the parties’ submissions, and given the compelling reasons set forth 18 therein, the Court rules as follows: 19 Dkt. 20 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 21 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 22 sealing Plaintiff’s 236-1 235-1 282-1 Meta Partial 23 Memorandum of GRANTED IN PART Law in Support 8:20-24; and DENIED IN PART. 24 of Motion for 9:2-9; Class 9:11-14; ECF pg. 8, DENIED. 25 Certification 12:17-25; 13:5-21; ECF pg. 9:2-6, 26 14:4-16; GRANTED. Otherwise, 14:20-21; DENIED. 27 14:23-28; 15:1-14; ECF pg. 12, GRANTED. 15:17-23; 28 15:25-28; Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 2 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing 16:1-10; ECF pg. 4 16:16-21; 13,parentheticals 16:24-28 following citation to 5 17:1-11; Exhibits 5 and 29 at lines 17:15-21; 6-10, 15-17, 6 17:26-28; GRANTED. Proposed 19:3-6; redactions at 18-21, 7 21:5-7 GRANTED. Otherwise, 25:26-28 DENIED. 8 26:1-5; 26:14-25; ECF pg. 14:12-13, 29:17-18; GRANTED. Otherwise, 9 32:11-17 DENIED. 33:6-12; 10 33:14-17 ECF pg. 15, parentheticals following 11 citations to Exhibits 15, 16, and 20, GRANTED. 12 The proposed redactions United States District Court of dollar amounts at lines 13 20, 21, and 23, GRANTED. Otherwise, 14 DENIED. 15 ECF pg. 16:3-4, 8-10, Northern District of California 16-18, GRANTED. 16 Proposed citations at line 19 and first three words 17 of line 20, GRANTED. Proposed redactions at 18 lines 24-25, and the parenthetical following 19 the citation to Exhibit 30, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 20 ECF pg. 17:10, the word 21 in quotation marks, GRANTED. Proposed 22 redaction of dollar amount at line 17, 23 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 24 ECF pg. 19, DENIED. 25 ECF pg. 21, DENIED. 26 ECF pg. 25:26-27, 27 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 28 2 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 3 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing ECF pg. 26:2-5, 4 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 5 ECF pg. 29, DENIED. 6 ECF pg. 32, DENIED. 7 ECF pg. 33, DENIED. 8 Ex. 5: Excerpts 236-7 235-2 282-1 Meta Partial 9 from 30(b)(6) DENIED without Deposition of 53:1; prejudice to 10 George Kamps 53:5-25; resubmission. Should (Aug. 27, 2025) 54:6-13; Meta choose to resubmit, 11 55:2-55:9; it shall file a version of 55:14-56:3; the deposition transcript 12 56:6-25; with highlighted United States District Court 57:3-4; proposed redactions. 13 59:24-60:4; 60:14-19; 14 60:23-61:2; 61:16-23; 15 62:1-11; Northern District of California 62:15-63:1; 16 63:4-63:23; 64:2-9; 17 64:13-23; 65:1-13; 18 65:16-66:15; 66:19-67:10; 19 67:14-67:23; 68:1-68:12; 20 68:16-22; 68:25 Ex. 6: Exhibit 10 236-8 235-3 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 21 to Deposition of Jeffrey Allen 22 (Feb. 4, 2025), document 23 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 24 046786 Ex. 9: Excerpts 236-11 235-4 282-1 Meta Partial 25 from Deposition DENIED without of Tom Palesky 4:11-23; prejudice to 26 (July 9, 2025) 49:1-16; resubmission. Should 49:18-23; Meta choose to resubmit, 27 49:25-50:6; it shall file a version of 50:8-16; the deposition transcript 28 50:18-51:1; with highlighted 3 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 4 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing 51:3-51:9; proposed redactions 4 51:14-51:24; 52:1-24; 5 53:1-24; 54:1-2; 6 54:6-8; 54:10-16; 7 54:18-55:4; 55:6-19; 8 55:21-56:21; 56:23-24 Ex. 10: Timeline 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full DENIED. 9 of Meta’s Repeat Infringer Policy, 10 as prepared by Plaintiff 11 Ex. 10-A: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. Exhibit 3 to 12 30(b)(6) United States District Court Deposition 13 Transcript of Tom Palesky 14 (Aug. 15, 2025), document 15 bearing Bates Northern District of California META_JLC_000 16 059819 Ex. 10-B: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 17 document bearing Bates 18 META_JLC_000 026033 19 Ex. 10-C: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. Exhibit 11 to 20 Deposition of Travis Golden 21 (July 11, 2025), document bearing Bates 22 META_JLC_000 014341 23 Ex. 10-D: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. document 24 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 25 172341 Ex. 10-E: Exhibit 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full DENIED without 26 12 to Deposition prejudice to of Glynis resubmission. Should 27 Braxton (June Meta choose to resubmit, 18, 2025), it shall propose partial 28 document redactions and identify 4 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 5 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing bearing Bates the basis for sealing. 4 META_JLC_000 082488 5 Ex. 10-F: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. document 6 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 7 022151 Ex. 10-G: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 8 Exhibit 4 to 30(b)(6) 9 Deposition Transcript of Tom Palesky 10 (Aug. 15, 2025), document 11 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 12 014841 United States District Court Ex. 10-H: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 13 Exhibit 3 to Deposition of 14 Chase Oxner (Feb. 21, 2025), 15 document Northern District of California bearing Bates 16 META_JLC_000 014368 17 Ex. 10-I: Exhibit 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full DENIED without 2 to Deposition prejudice to 18 of Chase Oxner resubmission. Should (Feb. 21, 2025), Meta choose to resubmit, 19 document it shall propose partial bearing Bates redactions and identify 20 META_JLC_000 the basis for sealing. 014350 21 Ex. 10-J: Exhibit 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 7 to 30(b)(6) 22 Deposition Transcript of Tom Palesky 23 (Aug. 15, 2025), document 24 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 25 015531 Ex. 10-K: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 26 Exhibit 8 to Deposition of 27 Travis Golden (July 11, 2025), 28 document 5 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 6 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing bearing Bates 4 META_JLC_000 020298 5 Ex. 10-L: Exhibit 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 17 to Deposition 6 of Laura Lozano (July 17, 2025), 7 document bearing Bates 8 META_JLC_000 020894 9 Ex. 10-M: 236-12 235-5 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. Exhibit 12 to Deposition of 10 Elizabeth Castilla Miranda 11 (June 12, 2025), document 12 bearing Bates United States District Court META_JLC_000 13 055057 Ex. 13: Excerpts 236-15 235-6 282-1 Meta Partial 14 from Deposition DENIED without Transcript of 4:23-25; prejudice to 15 Jeffrey Allen 53:2-4; resubmission. Should Northern District of California (Feb. 4, 2025) 53:6-12; Meta choose to resubmit, 16 53:14-54:5; it shall file a version of 54:7-13; the deposition transcript 17 54:15-23; with highlighted 54:25-55:2; proposed redactions 18 55:4-6; 55:22-25; 19 57:11-19; 57:24-59:6; 20 59:13-60:21 Ex. 14: Exhibit 2 236-16 235-7 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 21 to Deposition of Michelle Moon (June 24, 2025), 22 document bearing Bates 23 META_JLC_000 156989 24 Ex. 15: Exhibit 6 236-17 235-8 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. to 30(b)(6) 25 Deposition Transcript of 26 Tom Palesky (Aug. 15, 2025), 27 document bearing Bates 28 META_JLC_000 6 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 7 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing 145807 4 Ex. 16: 236-18 235-9 282-1 Meta Full DENIED. document 5 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 6 032071 Ex. 17: 236-19 235-10 282-1 Meta Full DENIED without 7 document prejudice to bearing Bates resubmission. Should 8 META_JLC_000 Meta choose to resubmit, 031207 it shall propose partial 9 redactions and identify the basis for sealing. Ex. 18: Exhibit 1 236-20 235-11 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 10 to Deposition of Glynis Braxton 11 (June 18, 2025), document 12 bearing Bates United States District Court META_JLC_000 13 090156 Ex. 19: Exhibit 236-21 235-12 282-1 Meta Full DENIED without 14 15 to Deposition prejudice to Transcript of resubmission. Should 15 Tom Palesky Meta choose to resubmit, Northern District of California (July 9, 2025), it shall propose partial 16 document redactions and identify bearing Bates the basis for sealing. 17 META_JLC_000 113354 18 Ex. 20: Exhibit 4 236-22 235-13 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. to Deposition of 19 Travis Golden (July 11, 2025), 20 document bearing Bates 21 META_JLC_000 069114 22 Ex. 21: Exhibit 236-23 235-14 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 22 to Deposition of Laura Lozano 23 (July 17, 2025), document 24 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 25 037278 Ex. 22: 236-24 235-15 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 26 document bearing Bates 27 META_JLC_000 020072 28 7 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 8 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing Ex. 23: 236-25 235-16 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. 4 document bearing Bates 5 META_JLC_000 011524 6 Ex. 24: Exhibit 5 236-26 235-17 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. to Deposition of 7 Elizabeth Castilla Miranda 8 (June 12, 2025), document bearing Bates 9 META_JLC_000 083425 10 Ex. 25: Exhibit 6 236-27 235-18 282-1 Meta Full GRANTED. to Deposition of 11 Elizabeth Castilla Miranda 12 (June 12, 2025), United States District Court document 13 bearing Bates META_JLC_000 14 083377 Ex. 29: Expert 236-31 235-19 282-1 Meta Partial GRANTED IN PART 15 Report of and DENIED IN PART. Northern District of California Jonathan Highlighted 16 Hochman, Ph.D. portions of ECF pg. 9, DENIED. (September 18, the 17 2025) following ECF pg. 10, DENIED. pages in 18 ECF No. ECF pg. 11, subheading 238-11: “A.” and the content in 19 paragraphs 33 and 34, 9-29 GRANTED. Otherwise, 20 37 DENIED. 39-42 21 44-52 ECF pg. 12, GRANTED. ECF pg. 13, paragraph 22 37, the sentence beginning “That image” 23 to the end of the paragraph, GRANTED. 24 Paragraph 38, GRANTED. 25 Paragraph 39, the sentence beginning “Mr. 26 Kamps testified,” GRANTED. 27 Footnote 15, GRANTED. Otherwise, 28 DENIED. 8 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 9 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing 4 ECF pg. 14, GRANTED. 5 ECF pg. 15, first two lines at top of the page, 6 GRANTED. Paragraph 43, line 3, sentence 7 beginning with “Ad targeting” to end of 8 page, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 9 ECF pg. 16, GRANTED. 10 ECF pg. 17, paragraphs 49-53, GRANTED. 11 Otherwise, DENIED. 12 ECF pg. 18, GRANTED. United States District Court 13 ECF pg. 19, GRANTED. 14 ECF pg. 20, GRANTED. 15 ECF pg. 21, bullet points Northern District of California 3., 4., 5. at the top of the 16 page, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 17 ECF pg. 22, DENIED. 18 ECF pg. 23, the listed 19 file names, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 20 ECF pg. 24, paragraph 70, the sentence 21 beginning “For example” to the end of the 22 paragraph, GRANTED. Paragraphs 72-73, 23 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 24 ECF pg. 25, from the top 25 of the page down to paragraph 75, line 3, 26 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 27 ECF pg. 26, DENIED. 28 9 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 10 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing ECF pg. 27, paragraph 4 82, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 5 ECF pg. 28, DENIED. 6 ECF pg. 29, paragraph 7 87, the last sentence beginning with “Mr. 8 Kamps also,” GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 9 Remaining redactions 10 from pgs. 30-55, GRANTED. 11 Ex. 30: Expert 236-32 235-20 282-1 Meta Partial GRANTED IN PART 12 Report of and DENIED IN PART. United States District Court Richard J. Highlighted 13 Eichmann, portions of ECF pg. 6, information MAFF, CVA the regarding the years of 14 (September 18, following data produced, 2025) pages in GRANTED. Otherwise, 15 ECF No. DENIED. Northern District of California 238-13: 16 ECF pg. 7, as to file 6-36 names, GRANTED. 17 39-40 Information regarding the years of the 18 takedown reports, GRANTED. Otherwise, 19 DENIED. 20 ECF pg. 8, DENIED. ECF pg. 9, DENIED. 21 ECF pg. 10, footnote 15, 22 GRANTED. Information regarding the year of the 23 Reporting Data, GRANTED. Otherwise, 24 DENIED. 25 ECF pg. 11, DENIED. 26 ECF pg. 12, information regarding the years of 27 the data reported, GRANTED. Otherwise, 28 DENIED. 10 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 11 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing 4 ECF pg. 13, lines 1-3, GRANTED. Information 5 regarding the year of the dataset, GRANTED. 6 Otherwise, DENIED. 7 ECF pg. 14, DENIED. 8 ECF pg. 15, information regarding the year of the dataset and year of 9 reporting, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 10 ECF pg. 16, DENIED. 11 ECF pg. 17, information 12 regarding the year of the United States District Court dataset, GRANTED. 13 Otherwise, DENIED. 14 ECF pg. 18, DENIED. 15 ECF pg. 19, DENIED. Northern District of California 16 ECF pg. 20, DENIED. 17 ECF pg. 21, paragraph 36, parenthetical 18 information, GRANTED. Otherwise, 19 DENIED. ECF pg. 22, DENIED. 20 ECF pg. 23, as to the 21 proposed redactions in paragraph 39, 22 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 23 ECF pg. 24, as to the 24 years of the reporting data, GRANTED. As to 25 paragraph 44, GRANTED. Otherwise, 26 DENIED. 27 ECF pg. 25, GRANTED. 28 ECF pg. 26, as to 11 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 12 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing paragraph 46, 4 GRANTED. As to the years of the data reports, 5 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 6 ECF pg. 27, DENIED. 7 ECF pg. 28, as to 8 paragraph 52, line 4 to the end of the paragraph, GRANTED. As to 9 subheading 1., and paragraphs 53-54, 10 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 11 ECF pg. 29, GRANTED. 12 United States District Court ECF pg. 30, as to 13 paragraphs 55-56, GRANTED. As to 14 footnote 78, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 15 Northern District of California ECF pg. 31, DENIED. 16 ECF pg. 32, as to 17 paragraph 60, lines 1-7, GRANTED. As to 18 footnote 85, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 19 ECF pg. 33, as to the redaction of the term 20 “Business ID,” and footnote 90, DENIED. 21 Otherwise, GRANTED. 22 ECF pg. 34, DENIED. 23 ECF pg. 35, DENIED. 24 ECF pg. 36, as to the dollar amount of revenue 25 earned at line 3, GRANTED. Similarly, 26 for the revenue figures listed in footnote 97, 27 GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 28 12 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 13 of 14 Dkt. 1 Dkt. No. Dkt. No. No. of Party with Full or Document title of of decl. in burden to partial Granted/ 2 or description redacted unredacted support substantiate sealing Denied version version of need to seal sought 3 sealing ECF pg. 39, as to the 4 revenue amount in Opinion 3, GRANTED. 5 Otherwise, DENIED. 6 7 Regarding Plaintiff’s motion to seal, the Court rules as follows: 8 • Dkt. No. 242-1: As to the last names of deponents at ECF pgs. 31-32, DENIED. 9 As to the settlement amount, GRANTED. As to the name of the entity Cook hired 10 at ECF pg. 36, line 6, GRANTED. Otherwise, DENIED. 11 • Dkt. No. 242-2: GRANTED. 12 • Dkt. No. 242-3: GRANTED. United States District Court 13 • Dkt. No. 242-4: GRANTED. 14 • Dkt. No. 242-6: DENIED, without prejudice to resubmission with partial 15 redactions. Plaintiff has not shown how third-party deponents would be injured by Northern District of California 16 allowing the fact of their deposition to remain public. 17 • Dkt. No. 242-7: DENIED, without prejudice to resubmission with partial 18 redactions. Plaintiff has not shown how third-party deponents would be injured by 19 allowing the fact of their deposition to remain public. 20 • Dkt. No. 242-8: DENIED, without prejudice to resubmission with partial 21 redactions. Plaintiff has not shown how third-party deponents would be injured by 22 allowing the fact of their deposition to remain public. 23 As to those filings for which the motion to seal was denied without prejudice to 24 resubmission, the party must resubmit by September 25,2026, should they choose to renew their 25 motion. Otherwise, the parties must file updated redacted versions of these filings, in accordance 26 with the Court’s rulings, by September 25, 2026. 27 // 28 // 13 Case 4:22-cv-02485-AMO Document 283 Filed 09/17/26 Page 14 of 14 1 The Court cautions that if a party chooses to resubmit their motions to seal and again does 2 not narrowly tailor their request, or fails to provide a basis for sealing the material, the Court is 3 likely to order the party to show cause why personal sanctions should not follow. 4 IT IS SO ORDERED. 5 Dated: September 17, 2026 6 7 ARACELI MARTÍNEZ-OLGUÍN 8 United States District Judge 9 10 11 12 United States District Court 13 14 15 Northern District of California 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 14