United States Ninth Circuit

District court failed to conduct a "good cause" analysis in considering a protective order on confidential settlement information, thus remand is necessary. If order in place is not modified, presumption shifts to non-access, and newspaper must provide compelling reasons for release of information. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2002
• Decided 05/13/2002
• Published 10/15/2002

Judges

• Before ALARĆON and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lee Levine & Seth D. Berlin, Levine Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P., Washington, DC;  David A. Schulz, Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP, New York, NY;  Thomas W. Newton & James W. Ewert, California Newspaper Publishers Assoc., Sacramento, CA;  Harold W. Fuson, Jr., Judith L. Fanshaw & Scott A. Wahrenbrock, The Copley Press, Inc., La Jolla, CA;  Nancy Gillespie, Dow Jones & Co., Inc., New York, NY;  Karole Morgan-Prager & Stephen J. Burns, McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., Sacramento, CA; George Freeman, The New York Times, New York, NY; Guy Kerr, Belo Corp., Dallas, TX; Alan Lewis, The Herst Corp., New York, NY; Edward P. Davis, Jr., Guylyn R. Cummins, James M. Chadwick, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Mary Ann Werner, Eric Lieberman, The Washington Post, Washington, DC, for the Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• William E. Jones & Lucy T. France, Garlington Lohn & Robinson, PLLP, Missoula, MO;  Richard A. Cordray, Andrew B. Clubok & Eric R. Claeys, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellant., James H. Goetz, Goetz, Gallik, Baldwin & Dolan, P.C., Bozeman, MO;  James E. Butler, Jr. & Peter J. Daughtery, Butler, Wooten, Overby, Pearson, Fryhofer & Daughtery, Columbus, GA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Kelli L. Sager & Rochelle L. Wilcox, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  Peter M. Meloy & Jennifer S. Hendricks, Meloy Law Firm, Helena, MO, for the intervenor-appellee.