In re Grand Jury Proceedings Relative to Perl

ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal questions the propriety of the district court’s1 decision to disclose to civil litigants certain specified documents that had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in 1980. Pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 6(e)(3)(C)(i), the trial court found that appellees had established a particularized need for the requested documents and that the need for these documents in the interest of justice outweighed the grand jury’s continued need for secrecy. The court then ordered the release of these documents. We affirm that decision.

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In 1980, a federal…