We were shocked by the recent story in The Legal Intelligencer regarding a civil case that was being litigated in the dark. The suit had been filed under seal in the district court and the parties took it all the way up to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals without any public record of the proceedings until the Court of Appeals issued its opinion.
Not only had the plaintiff brought suit as a "Jane Doe" (to protect her own identity), but every single filing in the district court and every single filing in the Court of Appeals – until the court’s own opinion was issued, ironically as "precedential" – was hidden from public view.
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