Judge Pryor’s Order to Seal the Burkes Motion to Disqualify is unlawful and unconstitutional, pure and simple. Judge Jill Pryor’s actions demand...
Plus, a look at 3 circuit courts. The ninth, eleventh and fifth circuit courts decide thousands of cases a year with broad...
It is obvious the Burkes intend to file a second motion to disqualify Judge Pryor based the on new facts raised (sealing...
Litigant Can't Seal Case to Improve Her Chances of Employment says federal magistrate judge. The right of access to court records precludes...
King & Spalding has withdrawn a request for nearly $665,000 in attorney fees after a federal judge ruled the law firm can’t...
The district court reasoned that sealing was justified because of "the child's privacy interest in being protected from financial predators or others...
Maneuvers to appoint rather than elect Justice Blackwell’s replacement already gives the appearance that a group of insiders have determined that hand-selecting...
"A key strength of our adversarial legal system is that we can learn the boundaries of the law from past cases,” Tushnet...
Burke v Ocwen and CFPB, that's right, the consumer watchdog objects to the consumers.
Proposed intervenor Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center wrote a blog post about the sealing of the court papers...
Secrecy is fine at the discovery stage, before the material enters the judicial record. But those documents, usually a small subset of...
The public thus has a right to access complaints in pending cases, in the weeks before an answer is filed, in the...
The State Bar of Texas' March Madness List of 15 disciplined lawyers and judges. Then there's the secret eight, a list of...
Burke v Ocwen and CFPB, that's right, the consumer watchdog objects to the consumers.
When a motion to disqualify a judge is based on the judge’s ownership interest in certain real estate, the public must be...
Eugene Volokh; This First Amendment right of access extends to “documents and records that pertain to a proceeding in which one or...
Federalist Society Member, Trumpette and Educator of Law announces; I don’t think it’s right to say that the Federalist Society picks judges.
A former top US financial regulator has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Blackstone to sell a company that helps savers obtain extra...