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• Unseal tobacco pleadings, TP urges 

Jump to full article: New Orleans (LA) Times Picayune, 2004-06-26
Author: From staff reports

Intro:

The Times-Picayune on Friday asked a Civil District Court judge to unseal pleadings in an eight-year legal battle between four tobacco companies and a class of about 500,000 Louisiana smokers.

The pleadings were sealed without a chance for the public to argue against secrecy and without a detailed explanation from the court of why the interests of confidentiality outweigh the public's right of access to court records, according to motion papers filed by the newspaper. . .

Friday's motion is the second time this week the newspaper has gone to court to fight against secrecy orders in the tobacco case.

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