Peek v. Florida Commission on Offender Review

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the right of access is destroyed when “the courtroom door [is] hermetically sealed by a functionary who destroys the evidence crucial to [a party’s] case”
• concluding that police cover-up of evidence which prevented plaintiff from filing § 1983 suit against government officials violated plaintiff’s constitutional right of access to court sys- tem
• finding that the “underlying claims against Defendants . . . have not been 10 dismissed and are still pending, and [plaintiffs] ‘cannot merely guess that a . . . remedy 11 will be ineffective because of a defendant’s actions.’”
• involving allegations that police precinct covered up evidence from a car accident in- volving the son of a police officer
• involving allegations that police precinct covered up evidence from a car accident in- volving the son of a police officer
• noting right of access applies when violation would foreclose plaintiff from filing lawsuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).