United States Eighth Circuit

A bankruptcy court judgment sealing a former municipal judge's creditor list is reversed where: 1) the list was not "scandalous" pursuant to section 107(b)(2); and 2) the list was not a "governmental matter made confidential by statute or regulation" and thus, the bankruptcy court abused its discretion in relying on Fed. R. Bank. P. 9018 to seal the list of creditors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2006
• Published 08/29/2006

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before SMITH, HEANEY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John S. Johnston, argued, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alok Ahuja, argued, Kansas City, Missouri (Johathan R. Haden and Ryan Edward Shaw, on the brief), for appellee.