Free press advocate asks Supreme Court for ‘presumption of openness’ for court records

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has asked the Supreme Court to make every document in their court open to the public unless it designates otherwise.

A New York Times editorial backs the suggestion noting that in the last 18 years the court has increased the practice of sealing records, a troubling trend. -db

From an editorial in The New York Times, September 18, 2011.

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