Case Information
*1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE
WATM LLC d/b/a STEVENS & Case No.: 2:24-cv-00405-JHC ASSOCIATES/STEVENS MANAGEMENT SERVICES, ORDER GRANTING WATM LLC’S
MOTION TO SEAL RE PAI’S AEO Plaintiff, MOTION (DKT. 43) AND PAYMENT ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL, INC.’S v. CROSS-MOTION TO SEAL (DKT. 60) PAYMENT ALLIANCE
INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
Defendant. *2
This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff WATM LLC’s Motion to Seal re PAI’s AEO Motion (Dkt. # 43) (the Motion) and Defendant Payment Alliance International, Inc.’s (PAI) Cross-Motion to Seal (Dkt. # 60) (the Cross-Motion). The Court, having considered the materials submitted by the Parties, hereby ORDERS that the Motion and Cross-Motion to Seal are GRANTED as follows:
The following documents attached to the Declaration of Brett MacIntyre (Dkt. 47) shall remain under seal:
1. Exhibit B – PAI_004921-4923;
2. Exhibit D – PAI_005452-5453;
3. Exhibit F – PAI_003258-3263;
4. Exhibit G – PAI_016294-16305;
5. Exhibit H – PAI_010016-0018; and
6. Exhibit I – PAI_003526. It is further ordered that the following documents publicly filed with the MacIntyre Declaration shall be filed under seal: Exhibit C – email chain filed as evidence in support of ATMOne, Inc.’s Motion
for Partial Summary Judgment (Dkt. 40) in the action entitled, Atmone Inc. v. Payment Alliance International, Inc ., N.D. Texas, Case No. 3:23-cv-01401-L (“ATMOne Action”), and bates-stamped PAI-00039-41. Exhibit E – PAI’s discovery responses filed as evidence in support of
ATMOne, Inc.’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Dkt. 40) in the ATMOne Action.
Because the exhibits filed with the MacIntyre Declaration were filed as a single PDF on CM/ECF, the entirety of the document will be sealed. Thus, the Court DIRECTS Plaintiff WATM LLC to re-file the MacIntyre Declaration with the documents to be filed on the public record.
*3 It is further ordered that the following language quoted in Plaintiff’s Opposition to PAI’s Motion for Protective Order (Dkt. 45), shall be redacted from the public record: The quoted language from Exhibit C in Plaintiff’s Opposition (Dkt. 45), at p. 8
lines 6-8; and The quoted language from Exhibit H in the Opposition at page 11, lines 4 and
10-11.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED this 23rd day of May, 2025.
__________________________________ JOHN H. CHUN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
