C.L. v. Edson

In this appeal, the original plaintiffs and defendants in a civil suit (original parties) join together to oppose a postjudgment intervention action by the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. The original parties challenge the newspaper’s entitlement to intervene, the timeliness of the newspaper’s intervention, and the trial court’s order allowing public disclosure of sealed settlement documents. Because the postjudgment intervention was timely and did not prejudice the original parties and because the circuit court properly ordered edited versions of the records disclosed, we affirm.

C.L. and five…