United States v. McDougal

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Susan H. McDougal filed a motion seeking to lift the seal on records from her civil contempt proceeding in which she was charged with refusing to testify before the Whitewater grand jury. After determining that McDougal failed to make the showing required by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) and that neither the common law right of access to court proceedings nor the court’s supervisory power over judicial records cured this deficiency, the district court 2 denied the motion. We affirm.

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