With the federal courts putting 576 of 245,326 civil cases under seal in 2006, the Judicial Conference, a body of senior circuit court judges that suggests rules for federal courts, recommended that the judges limit the cases under seal.
The conference found that the courts had not used strict standards in deciding when to seal cases and that procedures for sealing cases varied across the country. -db
From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, September 13, 2011, by Kirsten Berg.