Add to ORKGThe current law governing public access to information generated through civil litigation is flawed in two ways: (1) while many states and courts in theory require rigorous standards to be met before court documents, including judicially-approved settlement agreements, can be sealed, in practice courts often allow pressure from private parties to trump public interests; and (2) the public\u27s lack of any ability to access unfiled discovery materials deprives the public of information it often has an interest in seeing and permits litigants to enter into secrecy agreements that hide their bad acts. This Article details the deficiencies in the existing regime and then examines in detail several innovative sunshine rules that attempt to res...
This Article focuses on the proper balance for the tort system to strike between its role as a means...
In her article, Public Courts versus Private Justice: It\u27s Time to Let Some Sun Shine in on Alter...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...
The current law governing public access to information generated through civil litigation is flawed ...
The debate over discovery confidentiality has raged for over twenty years, since before the Supreme...
Courts encourage settlement as a way to resolve disputes efficiently and clear congested dockets, bu...
Courts encourage settlement as a way to resolve disputes efficiently and clear congested dockets, bu...
Courts encourage settlement as a way to resolve disputes efficiently and clear congested dockets, bu...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...
The ideal of the public trial in open court continues to guide decisions about public access to cour...
This Article offers support for the argument that protective orders for discovery confidentiality sh...
In recent years, judges have privileged confidentiality over transparency in discovery, especially i...
This Comment will first address the different ways that parties are able to keep secret information ...
Recently, the legal and academic communities have been studying the phenomenon of the vanishing tri...
One way that courts have adapted to the age of the internet is to provide nearly instant online acce...
This Article focuses on the proper balance for the tort system to strike between its role as a means...
In her article, Public Courts versus Private Justice: It\u27s Time to Let Some Sun Shine in on Alter...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...
The current law governing public access to information generated through civil litigation is flawed ...
The debate over discovery confidentiality has raged for over twenty years, since before the Supreme...
Courts encourage settlement as a way to resolve disputes efficiently and clear congested dockets, bu...
Courts encourage settlement as a way to resolve disputes efficiently and clear congested dockets, bu...
Courts encourage settlement as a way to resolve disputes efficiently and clear congested dockets, bu...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...
The ideal of the public trial in open court continues to guide decisions about public access to cour...
This Article offers support for the argument that protective orders for discovery confidentiality sh...
In recent years, judges have privileged confidentiality over transparency in discovery, especially i...
This Comment will first address the different ways that parties are able to keep secret information ...
Recently, the legal and academic communities have been studying the phenomenon of the vanishing tri...
One way that courts have adapted to the age of the internet is to provide nearly instant online acce...
This Article focuses on the proper balance for the tort system to strike between its role as a means...
In her article, Public Courts versus Private Justice: It\u27s Time to Let Some Sun Shine in on Alter...
In civil litigation courts often deal with information that is subject to a previously imposed restr...