United States v. Index Newspapers LLC

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[l]ogic dictates that the record of proceedings concerning motions to quash grand jury subpoenas should be closed” because there are “several compelling reasons why grand jury proceedings should be kept secret”
• “[I]t is well established that the harm caused by disclosure of certain judicial records more than outweighs any benefit caused by such disclosure.”
• “[FJederal courts generally do not reach constitutional questions if cases can be resolved on other grounds.”
• “Because the grand jury is an integral part of the criminal investigatory process, these proceedings are always held in secret.”
• no right of access to, among other things, filings and transcripts relating to motions to quash grand jury subpoenas
• “[pjursuant to the First Amendment, there is a presumed public right of access to court proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).