United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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1. “the names of both corporations and individuals because they 'at least appear[ed] to [the court] to be peripheral characters and as to whose [criminal] complicity [the court] had some doubt' " (alterations in original) ). The relevant considerations weigh in favor of redacting the names and descriptions of these uncharged individuals, who may nonetheless be "stigmatized from sensationalized and potentially out-of-context insinuations of wrongdoing, combined with the inability of these third parties to clear their names at trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. United States v. Cohen

2. “[W]here no indictments have issued against persons allegedly involved in criminal activity, there is a clear suggestion that, whatever their truth, the Government cannot prove these allegations. The court of public opinion is not the place to seek to prove them. If the Government has such proof, it should be submitted to a grand jury, an institution developed to protect all citizens from unfounded charges. All citizens, whatever their real or imagined past history, are entitled to the protection of a grand jury proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In the MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF WP COMPANY LLC D/B/A the Washington Post for Access to Certain Sealed Court Records