Cowles Publishing Company v. Murphy

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• explaining that party seeking to seal search warrant “ must state specific reasons for the need for confidentiality” (emphasis added)
• explaining that party seeking to seal search warrant “must state specific reasons for the need for confidentiality” (emphasis added)
• party who objects to disclosure of search warrant \must state specific reasons for the need for confidentiality\
• party who objects to disclosure of search warrant “must state specific reasons for the need for confidentiality”
• issue of access to search warrant affidavits should be determined by the role the documents play in our system of government and the legal process, not by what officials handle them
• “Access to search warrants and affidavits of probable cause can reveal how the judicial process is conducted. The procedures employed by the prosecutor and law enforcement can be evaluated. Access may also disclose whether the judge is acting as a neutral magistrate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).