Today's MetNews Perspectives Column offers
'Secretization' Continues: Court of Appeal Extends Anonymity to Drunk Driver, which asserts:
It’s getting out of hand.
Justices of courts of appeal are becoming so obsessed with carrying out their perceived duty to safeguard the sensibilities of adult parties who litigate in the courts that, increasingly, they are according them anonymity—sometimes without any request for it—often under circumstances where it’s senseless.
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The “secretization” of court proceedings ... is a trend—an obnoxious judicial fad. It’s in derogation, in my view, of the public’s right to know what’s going on in the public’s courts, which includes who is doing what in those forums.
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