Rudd Equipment Co. v. John Deere Construction & Forestry Co.

OPINION

COLE, Chief Judge.

Rudd Equipment Company, Inc., appeals the order of the district court grant ing John Deere Construction & Forestry Company’s motion to unseal this case. Immediately upon initiating this action, Rudd filed a motion to seal all filings, and indeed the very existence of this case, from public view. Although the district court entered an order sealing the case, it later granted Deere’s request to unseal. Because Rudd cannot show any countervailing privacy interest sufficient to outweigh the strong presumption in favor of public access to federal court records, we affirm.

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