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Common Law Right to Inspect Court Records
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1994, page 9
This is not a prison case but it involves a net maker's suing a competitor for theft of trade secrets. In the course of the litigation various documents were submitted under seal and protective order to the court. That litigation was settled. A shareholder in Applied Extension Technologies (AET) filed …
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