Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. v. Appeals Court

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• sealing of record at preliminary injunction stage of judicial proceedings between bank and state banking commissioner not an unconstitutional infringement on free press guaranty
• exempting from the definition of \public records\ bank examination reports collected pursuant to a statute providing for their confidentiality
• acknowledging \general principle of publicity\ while recognizing statutory limits on access to court proceedings and official records
• impoundment of court papers, in action by Bank Commissioner to remove bank officers, affirmed, although recognizing a “general principle of publicity” as to court-filed documents
• “a stranger seeking relief against an impoundment order may bring a civil action in the court which issued it, joining the clerk of that court in his official capacity and the parties to the action”
• court records outside the scope of G. L. c. 66, § 10

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