Sealed cases

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has issued a notice pledging that all dockets – court records…

The Supreme Court today declined to accept review of an appellate court ruling that has allowed all records in a…

A federal court on Thursday denied a newspaper’s request to intervene and unseal records in a sweeping corruption investigation in El Paso, Tex.,…

A legal newspaper in Pennsylvania has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision that allowed all records in…

The judge presiding over the trial of United States District Judge Samuel Kent issued a broad gag order Friday, prohibiting…

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

Last month saw Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick trying to force Free Press and Detroit News reporters to testify in the newspapers' Freedom of…

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

A long-simmering federal inquiry into public corruption in El Paso, Tex. has apparently yielded nine guilty pleas so far. Local attorneys, elected…

A federal judge in Idaho reversed his own decision closing a sentencing-related hearing today in the case of a man…