Courier-Journal, Inc. v. McDonald-Burkman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that intervenor news organization did not have a first amendment right of access to the pretrial discovery materials at issue in a pending criminal case
• holding that intervenor news organization did not have a first amendment right of access to the pretrial discovery materials at issue in a pending criminal case
• holding a court must balance its own inherent right to control access to public records produced in discovery with the public’s right of access, and this balancing is left to the discretion of the court
• “Commonwealth filed nearly 3,000 pages of written discovery with the court, pursuant to Jefferson County Local Rule JRP 803(G).”
• “trial court’s order is narrowly tailored to balance the interests between the press’s right of access and New’s right to a fair trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).