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Judge Warns Against Sealing Documents in Home Depot Data Breach Cases

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Dissent

From the yay-a-judge-standing-up-for-transparency dept.:

R. Robin McDonald reports:

A federal judge in Atlanta has put lawyers in litigation over credit and debit card security breaches at The Home Depot that he will reject attempts to seal large portions of the court record.

“The first 10 years I was on the bench pretty much we just went along with whatever y’all wanted to do about sealing documents. At least I did,” U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. told the lawyers at a Jan. 16 status conference on the multi­district litigation. “And then in these big commercial cases it became clear that things were just getting out of hand, and the lawyers were wanting to seal virtually everything.”

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