Certifying Digital Court Records - Digital Planning Podcast
AGG Talks: Background Screening - Redaction of Identifiers by the Courts Update, Breaking News from California
AGG Talks: Background Screening - Redaction of Identifiers by the Courts in Michigan and California Pose Challenges for Background Checks
The Minnesota Supreme Court earlier this month rebuffed the state legislature's efforts to hide records of eviction proceedings from public access. In its August 8 order (ADM10-8050), the Court through Chief Justice Lorie...more
Most litigants think that financial documents, such as tax returns, are confidential. The same is true with regard to trade secrets and other proprietary business information. While those sentiments are most often true, as...more
Recently, the Ministry of Justice published Draft Amendment No. 4 to the Class Action Regulations. This amendment proposes to prospectively include in the public electronic database known as the Registry of Class Actions...more
Spider-Man got involved in a recent federal case in Florida where the Judge, an apparent fan of Spider-Man, entered an injunction against the Florida Clerk’s e-Filing system (like Pacer) and the Clerk of the Court in Broward...more
Last year, we explored the Federal Judiciary’s new safeguards and procedures to protect sensitive court records in light of the SolarWinds Orion cybersecurity breach. Now, as a result of increased hostilities between Russia...more
Ruling on several motions to dismiss on January 14, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied an effort to dismiss Courthouse News Service’s (CNS) First Amendment challenge to Virginia’s restrictions...more
This month, Courthouse News Service (CNS) filed suit against several clerks of the Superior Court of California for allegedly violating the First Amendment rights of members of the press by restricting access to newly filed...more
Listen to our Digital Planning Podcast and learn about all things “digital” as to estate planning, business planning, and estate administration. Your hosts — attorneys Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch, and Justin Brown — will guide...more
On Wednesday, October 13, the Supreme Court of North Carolina issued new amendments to the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure. The key changes, which apply to notices of appeal filed on or after 1 January 2022, are...more
In this episode, AGG partner and co-chair of the Background Screening industry team, Montserrat C. Miller, provides an update to a prior podcast on redaction of identifiers by the courts in Michigan and California now that...more
The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered Dates of Birth (DOBs) to be redacted when releasing court records, which will make background checks involving Michigan court records more difficult. While the effective date for this...more
California employers should review their employment background check procedures in light of recent developments. The California Court of Appeal recently ruled in All of Us or None of Us v. Hamrick that an individual’s date of...more
In May 2019, the Michigan Supreme Court issued rules that when implemented generally would prohibit Michigan courts from releasing personal identifying information (PII), such as birthdates, on court records. The rules were...more
Under the Commercial Division Rules, a court may seal court records “upon a written finding of good cause.” So, what led Justice Robert R. Reed to deny two unopposed motions to seal in a recent decision in the New York...more
Trade secret owners who decide to enforce their rights in court must demonstrate that they took reasonable measures to protect their trade secrets. Frequently, however, trade secret owners enforcing their rights are required...more
The U.S. Federal Judiciary announced new safeguards and procedures to protect sensitive court records in light of a recent apparent cybersecurity breach. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security issued an...more
This post is part four in a series examining privacy and transparency issues in the context of public access to digital court records, building on my essay “Digital Court Records Access, Social Justice and Judicial...more
Maine state courts plan to start rolling out a new electronic filing and case management system by year’s end. When it’s fully operational, approximately 85% of the electronic documents submitted by filers will be...more
In its proposed electronic court records access rules, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) imposes on litigants new and extensive filing obligations, including requiring litigants to redact certain categories of sensitive...more
1. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE RECORD. The first question I’m typically asked by a prospective appellate client is “How can we tell the appellate court about all the emails from my ex-husband (credit card receipts, nasty texts) my...more
Spreading the news that e-filing is coming might not have quite the same importance as the message delivered by Paul Revere and his fellow riders in 1775 – but e-filing is still worth noting. I attended the Maine State Bar...more
The Supreme Court has ruled that the court has far reaching jurisdiction to allow non-parties access to court documents, but it will only allow such access where doing so furthers the principle of open justice: Cape...more
Commercial leases are not all boilerplate. The nature and sophistication of the business or industry of the tenant can lead to lease terms, addenda, riders and exhibits that are complicated and in some cases contain what the...more
In Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring (for and on behalf of Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK)1 the UK Supreme Court has given guidance on non-party access to documents filed in litigation in the English Courts....more
On 29 July 2019, the Supreme Court clarified the extent of the Court's discretion to grant a non-party access to court documents, by ruling that a non-party should be allowed access to documents placed before the court and...more