Bangor Publishing Co. v. Town of Bucksport

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “the [FOIA] actions are impermissible collateral attacks on a valid protective order. *** The protective order, as it stands, is just and proper cause for the nondisclosure of the documents.”
• newspaper barred from attacking valid protective order because it could have intervened in prior action
• “The [defendants] . . . properly refused to disclose the documents that had been ruled exempt by the protective order. Both were parties to the protective order; thus each would be in contempt for violating a court order if they disclosed the confidential documents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).