From Dabiri v. Fed. of States Medical Bds. of the U.S., Inc., decided Wednesday by Judge Komitee (E.D. N.Y.) (and see the underlying 2009 opinion):
Fifteen years ago, the plaintiff, a medical doctor by trade, filed this action against Federation of States Medical Boards of the United States, Inc. ("FSMB"), a non-profit corporation representing medical boards in the United States, and General Medical Council ("GMC"), a United Kingdom-based public authority. He alleged that GMC deprived him of his right to due process by suspending his medical license without notice of hearing and then forwarding that suspension information to FSMB, which included it in reports of Plaintiff's medical disciplinary history. As alleged in the complaint and exhibits attached thereto, GMC's decision to restrict Plaintiff's license stemmed from an unfavorable determination of his mental competency, at the time, to practice medicine. Plaintiff filed all documents in this case publicly, and at no time while the case was still pending did he seek to move any under seal.
Both FSMB and GMC moved to dismiss the complaint, referring to Plaintiff's competency determination in their motion papers' summary of the relevant factual allegations. Judge Charles Sifton thereafter granted those motions on various grounds in March 2009. That opinion included a similar reference to the circumstances of Plaintiff's license suspension in its recitation of the complaint's allegations.
In 2022, plaintiff sought to seal the entire case, but the court said no:
