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"Blanket Sealing Is Easy on the Filing Lawyer but Quite Hard on the Public's Access Rights …"

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"and the First Amendment. Particularly on a key substantive motion, full sealing will rarely square with the governing standards." Wise words from Judge Robert E. Wier (E.D. Ky.) in U.S. v. Higgins, decided Jan. 2, 2024 but just posted on Westlaw.

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution.