In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “no public right of access exists with respect to materials produced during the initial stages of discovery”
• determining that a public interest does not equate to a public right of access to discovery materials
• noting that good cause exists “when a party shows that disclosure will result in a clearly defined, specific and serious injury.”
• permitting designation of discovery material as confidential but “not permit[ting] such materials to be filed under seal”
• “In cases of unusual scope and complexity ... broad protection during the pretrial stages of litigation may be warranted without a highly particularized finding of good cause.”
• “public interest in particular litigation does not generate a public right of access to all discovery materials”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).