Legal Opinion
Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc. v. Fanning
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided April 22, 1988No. Record 850146PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPoff, J.
The issues framed on this appeal stem from challenges to several protective orders entered in a wrongful death case that sealed the discovery data, pleadings, and all the records in that case including the final order approving a compromise settlement.
On December 20, 1982, Virginia K. Fanning, executrix of the estate of Walter A. Fanning, filed a motion for judgment against several individual and corporate defendants seeking damages for the wrongful death of the decedent. In separate counts, the pleading alleged that death was the proximate result of acts and omissions constituting medical…
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