Court Says Mistakes Were Made in Charter Confidentiality Order
When a previous group of music labels sued Charter Communications in U.S. District Court in Denver, the court "mistakenly granted confidential treatment to too many documents [and this court] does not intend to make the same mistakes in this case,"…
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U.S. District Judge Brooke Jackson said Friday (docket 1:21-cv-02020). Jackson denied an unopposed Charter motion to restrict access to a pair of declarations and three exhibits but approved restricting access to one exhibit. Charter is fighting claims it played a contributory role in music piracy by its broadband subscribers (see 2108120002). "The Court does its business in the public eye unless there is good cause to restrict access, namely, a specific and convincing indication that public access to the document would likely cause undo [sic] harm to a party," Jackson said. "That the disputing parties agree to confidential treatment of much of what they file is not dispositive."