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.

Records and correspondence, Divorce, Stays of execution, proceedings, etc., Stays (Law)

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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.

Maryland, Laws, regulations and rules, Grand jury, Grand juries, Tripp, Linda

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