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D.C. Circuit· 7/24/1980

United States v. Hubbard

Citations

  • 208 U.S. App. D.C. 399
  • 650 F.2d 293
  • 6 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1909
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 15445

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the trial court’s discretion to restrict access to court records should “clearly be informed by this country’s strong tradition of access to judicial proceedings”
  • holding that because documents at issue had not yet been released, there was “no previous access to weigh in favor of access . . . granted through [an] unsealing order”
  • concluding that “the party from whom materials are seized in the course of a criminal investigation retains a protectible property interest in the seized materials” and explaining that this interest is “cognate to and supportive of” constitutional rights
  • noting that the extent to which documents were already made available to the public is a factor when determining whether a document should be disclosed
  • providing that the parties should be given the chance to “articulate any particularized privacy interest they wish to assert with respect to a document that is to be released”
  • finding that “the possibility of prejudice to the defendants by sensational disclosure” may weigh in favor of sealing the documents when the defendants have yet to be tried

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Judges: MacKinnon, Robinson, Wald

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