United States Ninth Circuit

An order, pursuant to a newspaper's request, unsealing pleadings and documents in an underlying suit by a police detective claiming retaliation by a city and county for his whistleblower activities is affirmed where there was no abuse of discretion in a determination that continued secrecy was no longer warranted for almost all of the documents currently under seal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2005
• Decided 05/17/2006
• Published 05/17/2006

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge., Before BEEZER, HAWKINS, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve Frank, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the intervenor-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jerold T. Matayoshi, Fukunaga, Matayoshi, Hershey & Ching, Honolulu, HI, for the defendant-appellant., William J. McCorriston, McCorriston MillerMukai MacKinnon, Honolulu, HI, for the plaintiff-appellee., Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, HI, for the intervenor-appellee.