The highest level of secrecy ever employed in Connecticut's courts was evidently achieved with the lowest level of judicial reasoning. In March, the courts released sealing requests and orders for about 40 super-secret "Level 1" case files that remained active after 2003, the year when the Judicial Branch outlawed the most extreme sealing category. The documents indicate that the judges or clerks who originally handled many of those cases made little or no attempt to explain why cases were super-sealed.
June 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The highest level of secrecy ever employed in Connecticut’s courts was evidently achieved with the lowest level of judicial reasoning.
Post-It notes, Day-Glo orange stickers, scrawled notations and clerical forms all passed as “sealing orders” for super-secret “Level 1″ case files. Judges offered little written or spoken explanation as to why they were locking away records of cases that often revealed embarrassing information about celebrities, public officials and lawyers.
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