Human Rights Party of Washtenaw County v. Secretary of Michigan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that concern for a “company’s public image ... is not enough to rebut the presumption of access”
• explaining that concern for “the company’s public image ... is not enough to rebut the presumption of access”
• explaining that “serious competitive harm” is the focus of the analysis
• drawing a distinction between trade secrets or other proprietary information and materials which might simply be embarrassing to a corporation
• distinguishing trade secret information that might cause a competitive injury if disclosed from general business information which might simply be embarrassing to the corporation if made public
• business information alleged to be confidential is not entitled to the weight accorded to trade secrets

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).