Oahu Publications Inc. v. Ahn.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the public’s qualified right of access to a transcript of closed proceedings persists even after the trial is completed
• dismissing petitioners’ writ of prohibition and denying writ of mandamus in light of substantive directives in opinion
• balancing the public’s First Amendment right to access judicial proceedings with the due process concerns of the parties
• using writs of mandamus and prohibition as vehicles to challenge the circuit court’s order sealing portions of court proceedings and closing the courtroom to the public
• sealing of a transcript should be tailored to respect constitutional right of access to judicial proceedings and, therefore, the court should only “seal [ ] such parts of the transcript as necessary to preserve the anonymity of the individuals sought to be protected” (alteration in original
• open courts offer an “assurance that the proceedings were conducted fairly to all concerned thereby promoting a perception of fairness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).