At a Nov. 28 hearing, it took a legally trained mind, and sometimes two, to come up with arguments as to why litigants’ physical safety required withholding all docket sheet information in some of the state court system’s remaining 40 super-sealed cases, one of which involves a Westport divorce lawyer.
Pepe & Hazard media law attorney Daniel J. Klau, representing The Connecticut Law Tribune and The Hartford Courant, told Middlesex Superior Court Judge Robert E. Beach Jr., “My clients are not interested in putting anyone in harm’s way.” He said that, if individuals’ names exposed them to danger, the remedy is for them to proceed under pseudonyms.
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