United States of America v. Iss Marine Services, Inc.

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• noting that movant had ‘not identified any particular documents in.the record that contain.sensitive, confidential, or privileged material
• finding government’s assurance that unsealing would not pose risk to ongoing investigations weighed in favor of unsealing
• discussing the importance of what the employees are told is the purpose of the interview
• finding no work-product privilege where investigation was undertaken almost entirely by non-attorney and supervision by attorney “was so minimal and superficial that it bordered on being non- existent.”
• “It is the proponent of the work-product protection that bears the burden of demonstrating that the prospect of litigation was an independent, legitimate, and genuine purpose for the document’s creation.”
• party seeking to maintain seal “misunderstands the meaning of the first factor in arguing” that party seeking unsealing “has proffered no public need for access apart from a generalized need for inspection” given strong presumption favoring public access

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).