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Plea for Openness

Daily Business Review

November 5, 2003

Calling it the "most egregious recent example of an alarming trend toward excessive secrecy in the federal courts," a national journalism group has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to open records in the case of a man detained in connection with post-9/11 investigations. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press accuses the 11th Circuit of approving "a drastic departure" from judicial norms and asks the Court to find the sealed judgment unconstitutional.

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