The state Supreme Court has granted the appeal of union leader John Dougherty over his concerns that a videotaped deposition in his defamation case against a former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist will reach the public domain before being entered into evidence.
The court granted allocatur Wednesday in Dougherty v. Heller, limiting the case to two issues Dougherty raised on appeal: whether the trial court’s refusal to seal the videotaped deposition threatens his privacy rights regarding personal information obtained during discovery that may reach the public even if not ultimately used in the litigation, and whether the court should have sealed the deposition given, among other things, the parties’ long-running animosity, the fact that Dougherty was the only witness the defendants sought to videotape and that the defendants refused to limit the use of the videotape to the case in question.
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