Read a summary of an appellate court opinion highlighting the reversal of a sealing order in a civil case due to procedural...
Compare to Harris County District Court in Houston, TX, who Seal ALL cases involving Divorce, and also When a Judge is Impartial...
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...
Eugene Volokh; This First Amendment right of access extends to “documents and records that pertain to a proceeding in which one or...