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113009P.pdf 02/11/2013 IDT Corp v. AR Public Law Center
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-3009
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Texarkana
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil Procedure. The district court did not abuse its
discretion by sealing sensitive business information contained in the
complaint in this action as the potential harm in unsealing confidential
and competitively sensitive information outweighed the moving party's
generalized interest in access to the complaint; however, on the record
before the court, there is not a sufficient explanation from the district
court for this court to evaluate whether redaction was a reasonable
alternative to sealing the entire complaint; as a result, the sealing order is
vacated and the case remanded to permit the court to either explain why
sealing of the entire pleading is warranted or to unseal a redacted version
of the complaint.