United States v. All Funds on Deposit at Wells Fargo Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a media organization had no First Amendment right of access to seizure warrant information while an investigation was ongoing
• stating that access to warrant materials “promotes the legitimate interests of the public and the press in ‘keeping] a watchful eye on the workings of public agencies’ ” (alteration in original
• affording search warrant affidavits a common law presumption \of the highest\ weight
• “Warrant application proceedings are highly secret in nature and have historically been closed to the press and public[.]”
• “The Court is required to order disclosure absent compelling reasons to deny access and even then must employ the least restrictive possible means of doing so.”
• affidavits in support of warrants of seizure in rem

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).