Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart
467 U.S. 20 (1984) Cited 2,499 times 10 Legal AnalysesHolding that a court may prohibit a newspaper that is party to a case from publishing information obtained through the discovery process
Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.
331 F.3d 1122 (9th Cir. 2003) Cited 3,355 timesHolding that the Phillips exception is "expressly limited to the status of materials . . . attached to a non-dispositive motion"
Gannett Co. v. Depasquale
443 U.S. 368 (1979) Cited 954 times 2 Legal AnalysesHolding that the public has no constitutional right to attend pre-trial proceedings
Brown Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. F.T.C
710 F.2d 1165 (6th Cir. 1983) Cited 929 times 3 Legal AnalysesHolding that the First Amendment limits judicial discretion to seal documents in a civil case
Public Citizen v. Liggett Group, Inc.
858 F.2d 775 (1st Cir. 1988) Cited 286 timesHolding that public has presumptive right under Fed.R.Civ.P. 5(d) and 26(c) to inspect discovery materials filed with the district court and that "[t]he effect of . . . nonfiling was to deny the public the right it would otherwise have had to inspect freely the discovery materials in this case"
Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc.
805 F.2d 1 (1st Cir. 1986) Cited 256 timesHolding that a district court's order protecting discovery materials from public disclosure with a limited exception for the producers of a particular television program violates other press outlets' First Amendment rights because " court may not selectively exclude news media from access to information otherwise made available for public dissemination"
In re Providence Journal Co., Inc.
293 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2002) Cited 161 timesHolding that the District of Rhode Island's blanket policy of refusing to file memoranda of law that counsel were required to submit in connection with motions violated the First Amendment
Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Standard Fin. Mgmt. Corp.
830 F.2d 404 (1st Cir. 1987) Cited 237 timesHolding 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"
Matter of Continental Ill. Sec. Litigation
732 F.2d 1302 (7th Cir. 1984) Cited 237 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that order granting access did not merit reversal despite insufficiently specific findings but noting that findings on the record are more crucial for orders denying access
Siedle v. Putnam Investments, Inc.
147 F.3d 7 (1st Cir. 1998) Cited 147 timesReversing district court's decision to unseal privileged documents at the request of a newspaper
Rule 26 - Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery
Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 Cited 94,916 times 653 Legal AnalysesAdopting Fed.R.Civ.P. 37
Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
Fed. R. Civ. P. 5 Cited 22,016 times 16 Legal AnalysesAllowing service by filing papers with the court's electronic-filing system