Legal Opinion
Baxter International, Incorporated v. Abbott Laboratories
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 16, 2002No. 02-2039PublishedCited by 611 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
A few weeks ago a single judge of this court, serving as motions judge for the week, received and denied a joint motion to maintain documents under seal. The motion was generic: it related that the parties had agreed on secrecy, that the documents contained commercially sensitive information, and so on, but omitted details. What is more, the motion did not attempt to separate genuinely secret documents from others in the same box or folder that could be released without risk. The motion was patterned on the sort of broad secrecy agreement that often accompanies…
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