Union Oil Company of California v. Dan Leavell

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an executive’s salary would not be entitled to confidential treatment “if a dispute erupted about payment ... or termination” of the executive
• holding that while “[m]any a litigant would prefer that the subject of the case . . . be kept from the curi- ous,” “[w]hat happens in the halls of government is pre- sumptively public business”
• noting that requests to seal proceedings that are based on confidentiality orders have been uniformly rejected, unless another good cause exists
• explaining that requests to seal documents based on confidentiality orders have been uniformly rejected unless good cause exists
• explaining that requests to seal documents based on confidentiality orders have been uniformly rejected unless good cause exists
• explaining that requests to seal documents based on confidentiality orders have been uniformly rejected unless good cause exists

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).