George W. Prescott Publishing Co. v. Register of Probate

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• concluding that good cause to impound deposition of public official where testimony included allegations of misconduct in office requires showing of overriding necessity
• distinguishing between the legitimate expectation of privacy of a private person and a public official
• considering, separately, disclosure of three different types of private materials in the context of a public official’s divorce
• refusing to impound private information in divorce case where husband was the County Treasurer and Chairman of the County Retirement Board
• public has \right to know 'whether public servants are carrying out their duties in an efficient and law-abiding manner' \
• court has “inherent equitable power to impound its files in a case and to deny public inspection of them . . . when justice so requires”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).