In Re: Deborah Alice Neal, Debtor, Deborah Alice Neal Unnamed Creditor, No. 1 Unnamed Creditor, No. 2 Unnamed Creditor No. 3 v. The Kansas City Star

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• explaining that the “unintended, potential secondary consequence of negative publicity . . . is regrettable but not a basis for sealing the filing”
• explaining that the key question is “whether the party seeking to prevent disclosure has overcome the common-law right of access”
• describing the right to public records as presumptively attaching absent “compelling reasons [to] justify nondisclosure”
• explaining the presumption of access to judicial records in a bankruptcy context
• employing a test to determine if a matter is scandalous by asking “ ‘whether a reasonable person could alter their opinion of Defendants based on the statements therein, taking those statements in the context in which they appear’ ”
• “[t]he unintended, potential secondary consequence of negative publicity . . . is regrettable but not a basis for sealing [a] filing.”

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