Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Hay

How courts have described this case

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

• following the First Circuit’s rule to reject a party’s broad request to seal business records on the basis of a confidentiality stipulation
• collecting cases and observing that “the longstanding tradition of public access to trials and pre-trial motions in our judicial system” is “protected both by the common law and the First Amendment”
• collecting cases and observing that “the longstanding tradition of public access to trials and pre-trial motions in our judicial system” is “protected both by the common law and the First Amendment”
• stating the public interest is strongest for documents introduced at trial
• “The public interest is strongest (and the burden to overcome it the highest) for documents introduced at trial.”
• “[T]here is a presumptive right to public access to all material filed in connection with nondiscovery pretrial motions, whether these motions are case dispositive or not.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).