Closed court records

The findings of a city-funded investigation into hostile workplace allegations against a judge and his staff are public under Washington…

A Florida Bar committee is proposing a rule that would eliminate access to recordings of court proceedings. For decades, many…

The South Dakota Supreme Court decided last week to seal jury records from the public in a bid to protect…

In response to a media group’s push for greater access to a sweeping public corruption investigation in El Paso, Texas,…

The Montana Supreme Court last week refused to release the disciplinary records of a former  city prosecutor who was fired…

From The Dallas Morning News: A Texas-bordering Mexican state where the drug trade subsists on public corruption, and murders this year have topped 700, is trying…

The Associated Press wants a Pennsylvania judge to open up his inquiry into grand jury leaks from a casino owner's perjury case, in…

A federal trial court judge in Washington, D.C. unsealed a previous ruling in a civil lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Oil…

Parts of more than 2,000 court cases in Oklahoma were sealed between 2003 and 2007, including divorce documents, wrongful death settlements…

A federal judge in New York decided Tuesday not to release the grand jury testimony of a crucial witness in Ethel Rosenberg's…