Douglas Smith v. United States District Court Officers

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the backup audiotapes should not “be deemed judicial records, unless some reason is shown to distrust the accuracy of the stenographic transcript”
• stating that backup audiotapes are the court reporter’s personal property
• backup tapes are not an original record of proceedings, nor are they filed with the court
• “The public, including the parties to a suit, have a right of access to the records of a judicial proceeding”
• plaintiff sought copies of audiotapes of proceedings in his criminal case tried in federal court
• claim for access to judicial court records not writ of mandamus but civil action under federal question jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).