Legal Opinion
Tavoulareas v. Washington Post Co.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 11, 1986No. Civ. A. Nos. 80-3032, 80-2387PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
GASCH, District Judge.
This action is before the Court on remand from the Court of Appeals to consider the motion of the Washington Post Company (“the Post”) and intervenor Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to unseal some 3,800 pages of deposition transcripts and some 425 accompanying exhibits. See Tavoulareas v. The Washington Post Co., 737 F.2d 1170, 1173 (D.C.Cir. 1984) (en banc). For the reasons stated below, the Court finds that good cause exists to retain the seal on most of the discovery materials.
I. BACKGROUND
The sealed discovery materials were obtained by the Post…
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