Handler v. Mayhew

ORDER ON MOTIONS TO SEAL, UNSEAL

JOHN H. RICH III, United States Magistrate Judge.

In this case arising from child protective proceedings initiated by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”), five motions seeking the continued sealing, or the unsealing, of various filings are before the court. See Docket *444Nos. 1, 33, 34, 39, 45. The plaintiffs generally advocate the unsealing of the filings at issue, see, e.g., Docket Nos. 24, 34, 46, while the State defendants (Mary Mayhew, Debra Potter, Claudia Kjer, Martin Smith, and Christine Theriault) press for the sealing or significant…