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Courts Can Approve Settlement Orders Sealing Case Files

When a district court "so orders" a settlement that provides the case file will be sealed, it is obliged to seal the case file, and cannot require a further showing of good cause. While the court has great discretion in granting or denying such a request in the first instance, ...

 

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