Legal Opinion
Mokhiber v. Davis
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 17, 1988No. 86-89PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM[:
Russell Mokhiber, an investigative reporter, filed a motion to intervene in a suit settled by the original parties four years earlier. He was trying to remove protective orders that barred public access to various documents held by the court. The trial court denied his motion, and Mokhiber now appeals. This case, therefore, requires us to consider under what circumstances the public enjoys the right to view different sorts of court records in a civil case.
The trial court, ruled, first, that Mokhi-ber’s motion was untimely because of the long passage of time between settlement of…
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