From the Fall 1999 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 34.
Holding that a trial court could not seal a court record merely because of the “invasion of privacy and resulting embarrassment” that accompanies every lawsuit, the state Supreme Court in Atlanta reversed in mid-September an order sealing court records in a case filed by a woman who claims that she is an illegitimate child of Rankin Smith Sr., the late owner of the Atlanta Falcons football team.
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