In the whistleblower case against Dallas-based guardrail maker Trinity Industries, a federal judge denied in part the company’s emergency motion to keep documents under seal during appeals. Significantly, the ruling means that other plaintiffs and potential plaintiffs will now have access to the court records.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall ruled on March 9 that he would keep most documents under seal for only 10 more days. Trinity had been joined in its motion by Texas A&M University, which houses an institute that conducted crash tests for the guardrails and is an interested nonparty in the litigation.
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