Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 3, 2013
Tips from the bench: sealing records
Lawyers don't enjoy the record sealing process, and they can make things worse by their efforts to comply with the sealing rules as much as by their ignorance of them. By Curtis E.A. Karnow
Once upon a time a law and motion judge in a courthouse not far away walked me into his courtroom. We viewed acres of sealed manila envelopes, artfully arranged on the floor. These were the subjects of motions to seal, and dated back to the Stone Age. The judge was not eager to rip open the lodged originals and laboriously compare them to the proposed redactions and determine whether, in each case, there really was an overriding need to keep...
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