Barron v. Florida Freedom Newspapers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding presumption of openness for all court proceedings applies to dissolution proceedings
• addressing the respondent’s motion to intervene and to set aside a closure order in a dissolution of marriage litigation and unequivocally providing that “both the public and news media shall have standing to challenge any closure order”
• In Florida, all court proceedings are public events and have common law right of access to court proceedings and records.
• privacy rights of children in dissolution of marriage proceeding do not automatically justify closure of court files; party seeking closure has burden of establishing necessity therefor
• \The burden of proof in [closure] proceedings shall always be on the party seeking closure.\
• “[A] strong presumption of openness exists for all court proceedings. A trial is a public event, and the filed records of court proceedings are public records available for public examination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).