Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the question “whether the First Amendment right of access also applies to written documents submitted in connection with judicial proceedings which themselves implicate the right of access.”
• “The district court may not simply assume that Congress has struck the correct constitutional balance.”
• \A district court considering a motion for closure of hearings for national security reasons need not divulge the facts of the situation to persons seeking access to the hearings.\
• “[T]he First Amendment right of access applies to documents filed in connection with plea hearings and sentencing hearings in criminal cases, as well as to the hearings themselves.”
• test applicable to sealed records of a plea hearing
• \Sentencings have historically been open to the public....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).