Webster Groves School District v. Pulitzer Publishing Company

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• recognizing that the decision to file a document under seal is a matter left to the sound discretion of the trial court
• holding that news organization's interest in unsealing the district court's file in a case between a public school district and a fourteen-year-old disabled student was clearly \outweighed by [the student's] privacy interest and the state's interest in protecting minors\
• holding that news organization's interest in unsealing the district court's file in a case between a public school district and a fourteen-year-old disabled student was clearly \outweighed by [the student's] privacy interest and the state's interest in protecting minors\
• holding that minor’s privacy rights justified closing all proceedings and sealing all records
• holding that news organization's interest in unsealing the district court's file in a case between a public school district and a fourteen-year-old disabled student was clearly \outweighed by [the student's] privacy interest and the state's interest in protecting minors\
• noting that we give deference to the district court’s sealing decisions “rather than taking the approach of some circuits and recognizing a ‘strong presumption’ favoring access”

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