Legal Opinion
United States v. Business of the Custer Battlefield Museum & Store
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 30, 2011No. 10-30222PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
We decide whether the public has a common law or First Amendment right of access to materials filed in support of search warrant applications after an investigation has been terminated. We hold that a qualified common law right of access applies. We decline to reach the constitutional question.
Background
Christopher Kortlander owns and operates the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, Montana. Beginning in 2005, the United States investigated Kortlander for unlawfully attempting to sell migratory bird parts and for fraudulently misrepresenting the provenance of…
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