Matter of Up North Plastics, Inc.

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• finding an unsupported, “speculative” fear that releasing a search warrant affidavit might expose cooperating witnesses to harassment or intimidation insufficient to merit “the ex- traordinary measure of sealing the court’s records”
• “[A] person whose property has been seized pursuant to a search warrant has a right under the Fourth Amendment to inspect and copy the affidavit upon which the warrant was issued.”
• “Where the government asserts a need to seal the information from the eyes of the person whose property was searched, it must make a specific showing of compelling need and must establish that there is no less restrictive alternative to sealing the records.”
• setting precedent upon which Up North Plastics court relied

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