Privacy Trumps Right of Access to Judicial Documents in ‘Giuffre v. Maxwell’

October 15, 2018  |  New York Law Journal

Southern District Judge Robert W. Sweet’s recent decision in Giuffre v. Maxwell addresses the press’s application to unseal potentially salacious documents covered by a protective order in an action concerning allegations of sexual abuse. In this article, we discuss Judge Sweet’s analysis of the law in the Second Circuit on protective orders and the sealing of “judicial documents,” and the tension between the public’s right of access and interest in transparency in the legal system and the individual’s right to privacy.

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