Articles Tagged with access

Courthouse News Wins First Amendment Case for Access to Court Records Updated: by

Courthouse News Service won a ruling in the Ninth Circuit recently for access to court filings. CNS went to federal court last year to challenge the Ventura County Superior Court policy of delaying the release of court opinions.  A U.S. district court judge dismissed the case, finding that it was…

Should Arbitration Dockets in Public Courts be Public? Updated: by

Delaware Courts of Chancery appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court recently, seeking to validate a law that would allow them to hold confidential arbitration proceedings for parties with $1M litigation at stake. Professor Judith Resnik wrote about this in the NYT Op-Ed pages,  "Renting Judges for Secret Rulings."