Public access

In Bradley v. Ackal, the Fifth Circuit reversed the sealing of an on-the-record proceeding involving the settlement of a minor’s claim connected to a police shooting. The Court reminded: “’In exercising its discretion to seal judicial records, the court must balance the public’s common law right of access against the interests favoring nondisclosure.’ But, ‘[t]he presumption however gauged in favor of public access to judicial records[]’ [is] one of the interests to be weighed on the [public’s] “side of the scales.”‘ No. 18-31052 (March 23, 2020) (citations omitted).