A federal judge has granted a request by suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin to unseal the identity of a woman who anonymously filed a civil case against a man the woman claimed recklessly gave her a sexually transmitted disease.

Orie Melvin claimed the identity of the woman, now publicly known to be Jamie Pavlot, was critical to Orie Melvin’s ability to confront the woman at Orie Melvin’s political-corruption criminal trial, which opened to the jury Friday.