United States Third Circuit

In an appeal arising from an action brought against a former employer-agency for violations of the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law and 42 U.S.C. section 1983, a district court's partial lifting of a confidentiality order pursuant to media-intervenor's request is affirmed where the district court correctly applied the multifactor balancing test laid out in Pansy v. Borough of Stroudsburg, 23 F.3d 772 (3d Cir. 1994).

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2006
• Decided 02/20/2007
• Published 02/20/2007

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before SMITH and ROTH, Circuit Judges, and YOHN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald D. Barber, (Argued), H. Yale Gutnick, Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Potter, P.C., Pittsburgh, PA, Counsel for Appellee/Cross Appellant., Kim M. Watterson, (Argued), Efrem M. Grail, Joseph F. Rodkey, Jr., Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Counsel for Appellant/Cross Appellee.