Legal Opinion
Luckett v. Beaudet
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided September 25, 1998No. 0:98-cv-01899PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ROSENBAUM, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Stephanie Luekett, asks this Court to allow her to proceed under a pseudonym. Plaintiff claims sexual discrimination and coercion in a lawsuit against her former landlord. Because her proffered reasons are purely conjectural, hypothetical, and abstract, the Court finds them insufficient to outweigh the public’s interest in open trials. The motion is denied.
“A trial is a public event. What transpires in the court room is public property.” Craig v. Harney, 331 U.S. 367, 374, 67 S.Ct. 1249, 91 L.Ed. 1546 (1947). Rule 10(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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