Legal Opinion
Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. v. Schumacher
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 8, 1986No. C8-86-65PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMDAHL, Chief Justice.
The narrow question presented by this case is what legal standard applies when a party seeks to restrict access to settlement documents and transcripts that are made part of a civil court file by statute.
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In September and October of 1985, Judge Robert H. Schumacher of the Henne-pin County District Court issued four orders directing that five civil court files be sealed. The files involved wrongful death suits that had been brought against Galaxy Airlines, Inc., and several others, after the crash of a Galaxy Airlines passenger airplane at Reno, Nevada, on January 21,…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. CohnSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by60 opinions
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