IDT Corp, et al v. AR Public Law Center, No. 11-3009 (8th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseAPLC moved to unseal a complaint filed by IDT and Net2Phone in a civil suit against eBay, Skype, and Skype Technologies. APLC moved to intervene in the suit and urged the district court to unseal the complaint in the interest of an open court system. The district court denied APLC's motion. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in its decision to seal sensitive business information included in the complaint where the potential harm of unsealing confidential and competitively sensitive information outweighed ALPC's generalized interest in access to the complaint. However, the court vacated the order and remanded for the district court either to explain why sealing of the entire pleading was warranted or to unseal a redacted version of the complaint.
Court Description: 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.
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