United States v. $9,041,598.68 (Nine Million Forty One Thousand, Five Hundred Ninety Eight Dollars & Sixty Eights Cents)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ATLAS, District Judge.

This civil forfeiture action was tried to a jury in March, 1997. Currently pending before this Court is a motion filed by the Houston Chronicle Publishing Company (“Chronicle”), seeking access to what the Chronicle identifies as “the deposition of Marco Enrique Torres Garcia.” See Houston Chronicle Publishing Company’s Motion to Unseal Deposition [Doc. #220]. 1 The Chronicle is not a party to the civil forfeiture action. The Government strenuously opposes unsealing any deponent’s depositions, particularly when the deponents did not testify at trial.

The…