At the end of last year Charter Communications Inc. and Entropic Communications LLC resolved a patent infringement lawsuit related to data transmission over cable technology, the day before a jury would have begun hearing the case. One of those "courthouse steps" settlements.
I don't know the particulars, but I gather the case may be important to the near future of cable television and the semiconductor industries.
It is, then, of broad public interest and the documents filed in the case should NOT be sealed.
Yet they have been sealed, and this has become a transparency issue.
"Judicial records belong to the American people; they are public, not private documents."
Bing Hoa Le, 990 F.3d at 417.
Ruling on unsealing court records poses threat to journalism (rcfp.org)
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