“Open courts” are a bedrock principal of our judicial system, and court secrecy, including concealment of pretrial proceedings, poses a serious threat to public safety. Overbroad protective orders have concealed facts uncovered during litigation regarding some of the most important public harms, keeping them secret when the public needs protection. Protective orders routinely include provisions that allow parties to designate discovery material as “confidential” without further judicial review. These orders are often abused and result in unnecessary costs to litigants, the courts, and the public’s confidence in the court system. This is always a mistake because it harms the discovery process as a whole, including the ability to compare dis...
The debate over discovery confidentiality has raged for over twenty years, since before the Supreme...
The pretrial process of discovery governed by Federal and Maine Rule of Civil Procedure 26 enables p...
The federal criminal discovery rules were a carefully weighed compromise between the parties\u27 nee...
“Open courts” are a bedrock principal of our judicial system, and court secrecy, including concealme...
There are few civil procedure laws broadly authorizing trial courts in the United States to consider...
The protective order is perhaps one of the most useful and “taken for granted” discovery devices con...
The pretrial process of discovery governed by Federal and Maine Rule of Civil Procedure 26 enables p...
This Note argues that similarly situated litigants always should be given access to protected discov...
This Note argues that similarly situated litigants always should be given access to protected discov...
This Article offers support for the argument that protective orders for discovery confidentiality sh...
There is an embedded constitutional and public interest in the impartialadministration of justice. C...
There is an embedded constitutional and public interest in the impartialadministration of justice. C...
There is an embedded constitutional and public interest in the impartialadministration of justice. C...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...
It is a basic principle of the American system of jurisprudence that the courts of the United States...
The debate over discovery confidentiality has raged for over twenty years, since before the Supreme...
The pretrial process of discovery governed by Federal and Maine Rule of Civil Procedure 26 enables p...
The federal criminal discovery rules were a carefully weighed compromise between the parties\u27 nee...
“Open courts” are a bedrock principal of our judicial system, and court secrecy, including concealme...
There are few civil procedure laws broadly authorizing trial courts in the United States to consider...
The protective order is perhaps one of the most useful and “taken for granted” discovery devices con...
The pretrial process of discovery governed by Federal and Maine Rule of Civil Procedure 26 enables p...
This Note argues that similarly situated litigants always should be given access to protected discov...
This Note argues that similarly situated litigants always should be given access to protected discov...
This Article offers support for the argument that protective orders for discovery confidentiality sh...
There is an embedded constitutional and public interest in the impartialadministration of justice. C...
There is an embedded constitutional and public interest in the impartialadministration of justice. C...
There is an embedded constitutional and public interest in the impartialadministration of justice. C...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...
It is a basic principle of the American system of jurisprudence that the courts of the United States...
The debate over discovery confidentiality has raged for over twenty years, since before the Supreme...
The pretrial process of discovery governed by Federal and Maine Rule of Civil Procedure 26 enables p...
The federal criminal discovery rules were a carefully weighed compromise between the parties\u27 nee...