United States v. Brener

OPINION AND ORDER

JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

It is largely left to the judiciary to find the right balance between, on the one hand, the public’s right to know what the government and the courts are up to and, on the other hand, the government’s right to protect the confidentiality of ongoing criminal investigations and the rights of individual citizens to maintain their privacy. But reasonable compromises and concessions by the interested parties can, as here, assist the Court in achieving a balance that permits substantial disclosure while minimizing its intrusiveness.

Here, the New York…