Giuffre v. Maxwell (SDNY): Opinion #10329575

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK VIRGINIA L. GIUFFRE, Plaintiff, 15 Civ. 7433 (LAP) -against- ORDER GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. LORETTA A. PRESKA, Senior United States District Judge: In response to Ms. Maxwell’s counsel’s letters of January 25, 2021 and January 29, 2021 (dkt. nos. 1191, 1204),1 in ordering the continued sealing in its order of January 19, 2021 of Ms. Maxwell’s testimony pertaining to private sexual activity with consenting adults and testimony and identifying information of non-party Does who have not been considered for unsealing, the Court considered, as it did during the last round of unsealing, the reliance of these parties on the case’s protective order. As Ms. Maxwell points out, the Court of Appeals recognized that third-party reliance on the protective order warranted the continued sealing of some materials in this case. In considering for unsealing the materials at issue in its January 1 (Letter from Laura Menninger (“Mot.”), dated Jan. 25, 2021 [dkt. no. 1191]; Letter from Laura Menninger, (“Reply”) dated Jan. 29, 2021 [dkt. no. 1204].) 19, 2021 order, this Court also considered this reliance