Court Reaffirms Commentators' Standing to Intervene to Unseal Court Records

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Court Reaffirms Commentators' Standing to Intervene to Unseal Court Records

From last week's decision by Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal in N.D. Human Rights Coalition v. Patriot Front (D.N.D.): Plaintiffs, two nonprofit organizations and an individual, moved ex parte for leave for the individual to proceed under the pseudonym "Plaintiff Doe." An ex parte order granted that motion.  Because those documents were filed ex parte, they are not available to … the public. After defendants Thomas Rousseau and Trevor Valescu ap…