March 2021

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Fifth Circuit Addresses Growing Concern With Overbroad Sealing Practices

By Evan M. Rios

PUBLISHED IN: MediaLawLetter March 2021

TOPICS : Access / FOIA, Government Records

The panel addressed a “peripheral-yet-essential point: Judicial records are public records. And public records, by definition, presume public access.”

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