Justice Blackmun refuses to stop opening of records
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Harry Blackmun, hearing an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, permitted a temporary stay to expire and thus allowed a sealed divorce file to be opened to the press. Both parties to the divorce, the estate of the woman and her ex-husband who is accused of murdering her, requested that the file remain sealed. Blackmun, however, denied the permanent stay without opinion.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1992
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Prosecutor's rejection of request for Tripp records upheld
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The Maryland Supreme Court ruled in Office of the State Prosecutor v. Judicial Watch, Inc. that the prosecutor rightly rejected a disclosure request for court documents from the Linda Tripp wiretap investigation because disclosure would have violated the state's grand jury secrecy law.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1999
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