BP Products North America, Inc. v. Houston Chronicle Publishing Co.

OPINION

ELSA ALCALA, Justice.

Appellants, BP Products North America, Inc., BP Amoco Chemical Company, BP Amoco Polymers, Inc., and BP Corporation North America, Inc. (collectively BP), assert an interlocutory appeal from two orders by the trial court (1) declaring 15 witness statements to be court records, and (2) denying BP’s motion to seal the witness statements. BP contends in its first issue that the contents of witness statements, specifically the “witnesses’ identifying information,” are not court records. BP alternatively contends in its second issue that the trial court abused its…