Federal court district weighs cutting back on plea agreement availability
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Cristina Abello Quicklink February 27, 2009The judge overseeing the sexual abuse trial against U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent has lifted a gag order in the case that had been challenged by journalists...
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Kirsten Berg Feature September 13, 2011Too many civil lawsuits are closed off to the public, according to the policy-making body of the federal justice system, which unanimously recommended today that...
View ArticleFourth Circuit to close portions of oral argument in Sterling case to the public
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Latara Appleby News December 4, 2013The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) will begin live streaming proceedings on Monday. It will be the first federal court of appeals to do so,...
View ArticleLegal site releases judges' financial disclosure data, highlighting teaching...
Jamie Schuman News May 22, 2014The National Law Journalpublished on Thursday financial disclosure reports from 2012 for 257 of 258 federal appellate judges. Judges redacted information from 112 of...
View ArticleFourth Circuit invalidates gag order and sealing order in Blankenship...
Tom Isler News March 5, 2015A federal appeals court today invalidated a gag order and sealing order that had been entered in the criminal case against Donald Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy...
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Hannah Bloch-Wehba News April 7, 2015A coalition of media organizations and journalists led by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed petitions to unseal secretive criminal...
View ArticleFederal court district weighs cutting back on plea agreement availability
Jason Wiederin Feature September 12, 2008Two Utah newspapers sounded the alarms this week over a rule up for debate in the federal district court there that would heavily veil plea agreements in...
View ArticleNewspaper asks Supreme Court to review secret docket
Rory Eastburg Quicklink September 15, 2008A legal newspaper in Pennsylvania has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision that allowed all records in a federal employment discrimination case...
View ArticleGag order removed in judge's sexual abuse case
Cristina Abello Quicklink February 27, 2009The judge overseeing the sexual abuse trial against U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent has lifted a gag order in the case that had been challenged by journalists...
View ArticleCenter releases pocket guide for sealed courts
Lyndsey Wajert Feature February 25, 2011Federal judges who decide whether or not to seal a court case can turn to a Federal Judicial Center pocket guide, which includes a brief history of case law on...
View ArticleU.S. judges to colleagues: put fewer civil cases under seal
Kirsten Berg Feature September 13, 2011Too many civil lawsuits are closed off to the public, according to the policy-making body of the federal justice system, which unanimously recommended today that...
View ArticleFourth Circuit to close portions of oral argument in Sterling case to the public
Andrea Papagianis News April 19, 2012Classified portions of oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. (4th Cir.) will be closed to the public in the government's case against...
View ArticleNinth Circuit to live stream oral arguments
Latara Appleby News December 4, 2013The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) will begin live streaming proceedings on Monday. It will be the first federal court of appeals to do so,...
View ArticleLegal site releases judges' financial disclosure data, highlighting teaching...
Jamie Schuman News May 22, 2014The National Law Journalpublished on Thursday financial disclosure reports from 2012 for 257 of 258 federal appellate judges. Judges redacted information from 112 of...
View ArticleFourth Circuit invalidates gag order and sealing order in Blankenship...
Tom Isler News March 5, 2015A federal appeals court today invalidated a gag order and sealing order that had been entered in the criminal case against Donald Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy...
View ArticleReporters Committee and media coalition move to unseal prosecutions of...
Hannah Bloch-Wehba News April 7, 2015A coalition of media organizations and journalists led by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed petitions to unseal secretive criminal...
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