Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi / NLJ
"Precluding public access because of the personnel-hours required to produce those records is no more warranted than precluding public access to high-profile trials because of the costs of crowd control,” wrote Chief Judge Merrick Garland.
July 07, 2020 at 02:32 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The Recorder
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that a federal judge should unseal electronic surveillance records in closed investigations, in a win for advocates seeking access to the court records.
The opinion stems from a 2013 petition from BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold, which the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press later joined, seeking to unseal court documents on electronic surveillance tools such as pen registers in shuttered federal investigations.
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