U.S. Industries, Inc. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Centraldivision

BARNES, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition for writ of prohibition and for writ of mandate (either or both, in the alternative). Petitioners seek to reseal a government memorandum which the district court has determined to be a proper object of federal discovery proceedings. This court’s jurisdiction to grant the requested relief is derived from the “All Writs” statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1651.

The government document in dispute has been ordered unsealed for the use of plaintiffs in presently pending civil, antitrust actions involving the concrete and coated steel pipe industry. The document had…