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· 5/17/1993

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Gary Van Waeyenberghe and Carl Leibowitz, and Howard K. Schwartz

Citations

  • 990 F.2d 845
  • 21 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1431
  • 25 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 963
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 11147

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that the settlement documents, final order, and transcript were judicial records
  • recognizing that a court may seal documents that contain confidential business information
  • explaining that \[t]he public's right to information does not protect the same interests that the right of access is designed to protect\
  • reversing because “[w]e find no evidence in the record that the district court balanced the competing interests pri- or to sealing the final order”
  • contrasting public’s right to information about judicial proceedings to right to access to judicial records
  • recognizing the common-law presumption of public access to judicial documents

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Judges: Goldberg, Higginbotham, Garza

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