{"id":2518,"date":"2013-12-05T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:34:54","slug":"illinois-consumers-may-risk-secret-settlements-sealed-court-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-consumers-may-risk-secret-settlements-sealed-court-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Consumers May Be at Risk Because of Secret Settlements and Sealed Court Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Those who would prefer that court records remain secret have a higher burden in trying to keep filed pleadings, court orders, minute entries, hearing transcripts, trial exhibits and discovery documents filed with the court as attachments to motions.<span>\u00a0<\/span>For those who wish to have court records secret, the proponent must demonstrate that sealing is warranted under both the federal common law and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\">First Amendment,<\/a> which serves as independent grounds for challenging secrecy orders.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Lawyers who motion to seal court records and files must demonstrate to the court and the opposition a very strong reason why public access should be denied.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Under the federal common law, courts begin with a presumption in favor of public access.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Under the federal law, the presumption of public access can be overcome if the proponent of this secrecy effort demonstrates \u201ccompelling reasons\u201d for secrecy that are supported by \u201cspecific factual findings.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><i>Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu<\/i>, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178 (9<sup>th<\/sup> Cir. 2006) and <i>Union Oil Co. v. Levall<\/i>, 2020 Fed. 3d 562, 567-68 (7<sup>th<\/sup> Cir. 2000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One of the standards and a compelling reason to seal or make secret court files may be found when disclosing the court records would result in \u201cimproper use of the material for scandalous or libelous purposes or infringement upon trade secrets,\u201d but not much beyond that.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/us-9th-circuit\/1118841.html\"><i>Hagestad v. Tragesser<\/i><\/a>, 49 F. 3d 1430, 1434 (9<sup>th<\/sup> Cir. 1995).<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-consumers-may-risk-secret-settlements-sealed-court-files\/#more-2518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who would prefer that court records remain secret have a higher burden in trying to keep filed pleadings, court orders, minute entries, hearing transcripts, trial exhibits and discovery documents filed with the court as attachments to motions.\u00a0For those who wish to have court records secret, the proponent must demonstrate that sealing is warranted under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,51,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-law","category-pharmaceutical-injuries","category-product-defect-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Consumers May Be at Risk Because of Secret Settlements and Sealed Court Files &#8212; 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