In re Honorable Bennett
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In this action challenging the Supreme Court's sealing of the record of the disciplinary action against Judge Adrianne L. Bennett by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission the Supreme Court unsealed certain filings in the case but concluded that the Commission's records attached to a mandamus petition should remain under seal.
At issue was the order of the Supreme Court disposing of Judge Bennett's petition for writs of mandamus and prohibition in connection with this matter, which the Supreme Court ordered sealed along with all other documents of the proceedings. The publisher of a news entity asked the Supreme Court to unseal the order sealing the proceedings regarding Judge Bennett's mandamus petition and filed a petition to vacate the sealing order. The Supreme Court unsealed the remainder of the filings in this case but held that the records of the Commission attached to the mandamus petition should remain under seal, holding that Judge Bennett had a statutory right to keep that information confidential.
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