United States v. El-Sayegh, Hani

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• holding that a withdrawn guilty plea agreement in a criminal case which the district court never ruled upon was not a judicial record
• concluding that certain reports were not judicial records where the court made no decisions about them or otherwise relied on them
• stating that FOIA is the proper device for documents that would provide “public oversight of the 17 executive” but were not judicial records because they “played no role in any adjudicatory function”
• noting “the policy in favor of civil settlement,” and the risks posed to this policy by disclosure of settlement negotiations
• finding plea agreement that played no role in any adjudicatory function was not judicial record
• finding plea agreement that played no role in any adjudicatory function was not judicial record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).