Case: Individual Employment Rights/Procedural Due Process (S.D.N.Y.)

A New York federal district court partially granted a pro se plaintiff’s request to seal sensitive financial documents in a case where she had previously been recommended for dismissal for failure to prosecute, ruling that while bank statements, tax documents, and benefits verification documents contained personal identifying information warranting protection under the Second Circuit’s three-step test for overcoming the presumption of public access, narrowly tailored redactions rather than complete sealing were sufficient, and documents already publicly filed couldn’t be sealed.

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