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Federal Trade Commission v. Whole Foods Market, Inc. et al

MOTION to Unseal Document Complaint

16 Cited authorities

  1. In re Cendant Corp.

    260 F.3d 183 (3d Cir. 2001)   Cited 579 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the "right of access should be applied ... with particular strictness" due to "the peculiar posture of class actions whereby some members of the public are also parties to the class action"

  2. Brown Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. F.T.C

    710 F.2d 1165 (6th Cir. 1983)   Cited 929 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the First Amendment limits judicial discretion to seal documents in a civil case

  3. United States v. Hubbard

    650 F.2d 293 (D.C. Cir. 1980)   Cited 293 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the district court should not have unsealed the documents where the documents "were not determined by the trial judge to be relevant to the crimes charged ... were not used in the subsequent 'trial'; nor were they ... described or even expressly relied upon by the trial judge in his decision on the suppression motion"

  4. Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Standard Fin. Mgmt. Corp.

    830 F.2d 404 (1st Cir. 1987)   Cited 237 times
    Holding that "relevant documents which are submitted to, and accepted by, a court of competent jurisdiction in the course of adjudicatory proceedings, become documents to which the presumption of public access applies," and "[o]nce those submissions come to the attention of the district judge, they can fairly be assumed to play a role in the court's deliberations"

  5. Equal Emp. Opp. Comm. v. Nat. Children's Ctr.

    98 F.3d 1406 (D.C. Cir. 1996)   Cited 150 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, for a consent decree, the presumption of access is "especially strong" because " court's decrees, its judgments, its orders, are the quintessential business of the public's institutions"

  6. Washington Post v. Robinson

    935 F.2d 282 (D.C. Cir. 1991)   Cited 136 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that First Amendment protects public access to plea agreement on which judgment has been entered

  7. Johnson v. Greater Se. Comm. Hosp

    951 F.2d 1268 (D.C. Cir. 1991)   Cited 98 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Recognizing an "obvious public interest in being informed about the quality of health care"

  8. Cobell v. Norton

    157 F. Supp. 2d 82 (D.D.C. 2001)   Cited 17 times
    Analyzing under the fifth Hubbard factor the prejudice to the party requesting the sealing of documents

  9. Weaver v. Bratt

    421 F. Supp. 2d 25 (D.D.C. 2006)   Cited 8 times
    Holding that the CSRA did not preclude the plaintiff-employee's Fourth or Fifth Amendment claims because the claims were not based on "personnel actions" within the meaning of the CSRA

  10. Rule 26 - Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 26   Cited 94,988 times   653 Legal Analyses
    Adopting Fed.R.Civ.P. 37

  11. Section 45 - Unfair methods of competition unlawful; prevention by Commission

    15 U.S.C. § 45   Cited 3,854 times   558 Legal Analyses
    Providing court-ordered monetary penalties against anyone who engages in conduct previously identified as prohibited in a final cease and desist order, but only if the violator acted with "actual knowledge that such act or practice is unfair or deceptive"

  12. Section 18 - Acquisition by one corporation of stock of another

    15 U.S.C. § 18   Cited 1,506 times   50 Legal Analyses
    Barring an acquisition "where in any line of commerce ... the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition"

  13. Rule 27 - Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 27   Cited 652 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Providing a procedure for preserving testimony before the bringing of a federal cause of action

  14. Section 46 - Additional powers of Commission

    15 U.S.C. § 46   Cited 178 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Granting power to the F.T.C. to publicize certain information

  15. Section 18a - Premerger notification and waiting period

    15 U.S.C. § 18a   Cited 154 times   107 Legal Analyses
    Exempting from antitrust laws "transactions specifically exempted from the antitrust laws by Federal statute"

  16. Section 4.10 - Nonpublic material

    16 C.F.R. § 4.10   Cited 15 times

    (a) The following records and other material of the Commission are not required to be made public pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552 . (1) Records, except to the extent required to be disclosed under other laws or regulations, related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of the Commission. This exemption applies to internal rules or instructions to Commission personnel which must be kept confidential in order to assure effective performance of the functions and activities for which the Commission