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· 3/4/2008

In Re Copley Press, Inc.

Citations

  • 518 F.3d 1022
  • 2008 WL 564976

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a qualified First Amendment right of public access attaches to, among other documents, a plea colloquy transcript
  • reiterating that even when the public has a qualified right of access to a document, that right can be overcome
  • recognizing a “qualified First Amendment right of access” to the “cooperation addendum” to a “plea agreement” in that case
  • finding district court clearly erred in 11 unsealing documents where there was a substantial probability doing so would endanger 12 lives
  • describing motion to unseal and order by the district court ruling on the motion
  • “The public has no right to access the declarations and documentation appended to the government’s March 16 motion to seal....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Dorothy W. Nelson and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges

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