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Super-sealed Cases

By Tom Lincoln

There are sealed cases and then there are "super-sealed" cases, i.e., "cases in  the total eclipse of entire cases or individual pleadings by keeping everything about them -- even case and docket numbers -- secret."  See Court Secrecy Practices at Center of Drug Boss's 11th Circuit Appeal | Appeal focuses on 'super-sealed' court documents that hide cases' existence, by Dan Christensen (Miami Daily Business Review) at Law.com, about the appeal by Flavio Ochoa. Lots of comments at oral argument, but will the 11th Circuit put an end to this practice once and for all? Someone -whoever that may be- "forgot" to unseal the cases, said the prosecutor. Give me a break!

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on November 21, 2004 (boomark / email).