Legal Opinion
Larry Flynt v. George Lombardi
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 13, 2018No. 16-1295; 16-2232PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Intervenor Larry Flynt appeals the district court's 1 denial of his motion to unseal certain judicial records regarding death row inmates' challenges to Missouri's lethal injection protocol. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The underlying litigation in this matter involves an omnibus Eighth Amendment challenge to Missouri's execution protocol. Ringo v. Lombardi , 677 F.3d 793 (8th Cir. 2012). During the course of that litigation, state government agencies filed documents under seal in order to be able to carry out executions. Flynt sought to intervene at some point during that…
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