Lawyers for The Legal Intelligencer are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue of whether court dockets in civil cases may ever be sealed from public view and whether it is ever proper to have a “blanket” sealing of all documents in a case without first giving the press and the public a chance to object.
In a petition for certiorari, attorneys Robert C. Clothier, Abraham C. Reich and Brett A. Berman of Fox Rothschild argue that the high court should reverse a series of rulings by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. C.A.R.S. Protection Plus Inc. that allowed the case to be litigated in secret.
