Courier-Journal & Louisville Times Co. v. Peers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing “a limited right [of access] which can be foreclosed if the litigants’ rights of privacy outweigh the public’s right to know”
• hearing allowed to determine whether public’s right of access was outweighed by the litigant’s right of privacy
• “If the Courier-Journal makes an appropriate motion to intervene and requests a hearing, the trial judge shall conduct a hearing consistent with this Opinion to decide whether all or portions of the record in the underlying case ... shall be made available for inspection by the news media.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).