Morris v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services

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• holding that sealing official documents should not be done without a compelling reason
• noting that section “107(b) is carefully drafted to avoid merging ‘trade secrets’ with ‘confidential commercial information’”
• concluding that because section 107 did not impose a good cause requirement for sealing documents, the fact that the underlying information contained in the documents at issue had already been disclosed in news releases did not preclude entry of a sealing order
• “Congress, itself, has recognized that under compelling or extraordinary circumstances, an exception to the general policy of public access is necessary.”
• “In limited circumstances, courts must deny access to judicial documents-generally where open inspection may be used as a vehicle for improper purposes.”
• “Congress, itself, has recognized that under compelling or extraordinary circumstances, an exception to the general policy of public access is necessary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).