E.D. v. Intercontinental Hotels Group

How courts have described this case

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• allowing the appellant, who was serving a prison sentence, 13 to proceed anonymously for fear of retaliation by other inmates
• permitting use of 19 pseudonym to protect prison inmate cooperating as a government witness
• Directing Clerk to seal 23 proposed First Amended Complaint, which referenced minors’ identifiers (i.e., first and full 24 25 names), which “must either be excluded or partially redacted” from the filing
• using a pseudonym because the appellant, as “a government witness, . . . faced a risk of serious bodily harm if his role on behalf of the Government were disclosed to other inmates”
• using pseudonyms where informant 15 “faced a serious risk of bodily harm”
• an offer to cooperate is not equivalent to an offer to plead guilty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).