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Court unseals more documents in secret El Paso corruption case
A federal court on Thursday denied a newspaper’s request to intervene and unseal records in a sweeping corruption investigation in El Paso, Tex.,… -
Newspaper asks Supreme Court to review secret docket
A legal newspaper in Pennsylvania has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision that allowed all records in… -
Court issues broad gag order in federal judge’s sex abuse trial
The judge presiding over the trial of United States District Judge Samuel Kent issued a broad gag order Friday, prohibiting… -
Government responds to media in largely hidden El Paso case
In response to a media group’s push for greater access to a sweeping public corruption investigation in El Paso, Texas,… -
Det. newspapers want mayor to testify in FOIA case
Last month saw Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick trying to force Free Press and Detroit News reporters to testify in the newspapers' Freedom of… -
Okla. newspaper uncovers more than 2,000 court cases sealed
Parts of more than 2,000 court cases in Oklahoma were sealed between 2003 and 2007, including divorce documents, wrongful death settlements… -
Local Tex. corruption case moves along, but off the books
A long-simmering federal inquiry into public corruption in El Paso, Tex. has apparently yielded nine guilty pleas so far. Local attorneys, elected… -
Death penalty proceeding to be open, after all
A federal judge in Idaho reversed his own decision closing a sentencing-related hearing today in the case of a man… -
Appeals court refuses to open docket, files in abortion case
A federal appeals court has rejected The Legal Intelligencer 's bid to access the sealed docket and files in a… -
Facebook hearing unlawfully sealed
Without bothering to detail why, a U.S. district judge in California on Monday barred the public from a hearing in…