Lifecare International, Inc. v. Barad

Lifecare International, Inc., petitions under Rule 9.100(d), Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure, for review of the trial court’s order on Lifecare’s motion to unseal the court file in a civil action pending below. We grant the petition.

In 1987 Brent Surgical, Inc., filed a civil action against Cordis Corporation and TPL-Cordis, Inc., in the trial court. In 1988 the parties entered into an agreed protective order which established a procedure by which each party could designate as “confidential information” such information as it produced in discovery which the party deemed in good faith to…