DeMarchi, Virginia K., United States Magistrate Judge
This Document Relates To: All Actions
ORDER RE NOVEMBER 26, 2024 DISCOVERY DISPUTE RE REDACTIONS OF NAMED PLAINTIFFS’ DATA Re: Dkt. No. 708
The parties disagree regarding whether plaintiffs may redact private health-related information from their patient portal activity logs. Dkt. No. 708. The Court held a hearing on this dispute on January 15, 2025. See Dkt. No. 737.
As discussed during the hearing, the Court finds that plaintiffs have put at issue in this case the types and categories of health-related information that they have redacted from these records. Plaintiffs have offered no persuasive justification for redacting this information from documents produced during discovery. The protective order entered in this action affords protections that are sufficient to protect plaintiffs’ privacy with respect to this information.
Plaintiffs must produce the documents in question without redactions of health-related information by January 22, 2025. Plaintiffs may retain redactions of other personal information, as noted in Meta’s footnote 2 of the discovery dispute letter.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: January 15, 2025