Anne Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc., Globe Newspaper Company, Intervenor

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• holding that there is no right of public access to documents considered in civil discovery motions
• holding that the discovery process has no tradition or history of public access and does not play a significant role in the administration of justice
• holding that civil discovery proceedings are fundamentally different from those to which a public right of access has attached
• holding that a district court could not provide access to certain discovery materials to one newspaper and then deny access to competing newspapers
• holding that there is no constitutional or common law right of access to documents submitted to the court in a civil case for use in deciding discovery motions
• holding that an appeal involving a pretrial protective order limiting disclosure of discovery 23 information before a jury was selected did not become moot when the order was vacated because the issue was capable of repetition

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