The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that an agreement detailing the division of proceeds between two claimants who brought qui tam suits against Quest Diagnostics International should not have been placed under seal.
The District Court failed to identify any particularized harm that would result if the settlement agreement were open for public view, and it discounted the public interest in learning the settlement terms, the appeals court said in Fair Laboratory Practices Associates v. Riedel.
