Arkansas Best Corp. v. General Electric Capital Corp.

David Newbern, Justice.

Arkansas Best Corporation (ABC) appeals from the order of a Chancellor refusing to unseal a settlement agreement and resulting judgment. The agreement was entered by the parties to a lawsuit before the Chancellor and sealed at their request. In the order sealing the agreement, the Chancellor stated conditions upon which the settlement could be unsealed, in which case it would be incorporated as the findings of fact in an agreed judgment signed by the Chancellor. It was error to permit the document to be sealed, thus we reverse and remand.

In 1989, ABC entered an…