JLG Industries, Inc. v. Mark Industries

How courts have described this case

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• Affirming the district court’s modification of a “protective order on the motion of a nonparty in order to permit that nonparty retroactive access to discovered documents.”
• “as a general proposition, pretrial discovery must take place in the public unless compelling reasons exist for denying the public access to the proceedings.”
• “[W]here a protective order is agreed to by the parties before its presentation to the court, there is a higher burden on the movant to justify the modification of the order.”
• “As a general proposition, pretrial discovery must take place in the public unless compelling reasons exist for denying the public access to the proceedings.” (citing FED. R. CIV. P. 26(c))
• “[W]here a protective order is agreed to by the parties before its presentation to the court, there is a higher burden on the movant to justify the modification of the order.”
• same rationale applies in situation where third party seeks to modify protective order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).