kenneth kamakana

• Kenneth Kamakana, Plaintiff-Appellee, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant, Gannett Pacific Corporation, Dba the Honolulu Advertiser, Intervenor-Appellee, v. City and County of Honolulu; Lee Donohue, in His Official Capacity; Milton Olmos, in His Official Capacity, Defendants-Appellants, and Lee Donahue, Individually; Milton Olmos, Individually, Defendants., 447 F.3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2006)

Steve Frank, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the intervenor-appellant. William J. McCorriston, McCorriston Miller Muk...

• Federal Circuits

• The Chill of Blanket Orders

A higher standard exists for motions seeking to end a case because the resolution of a dispute "is at the heart of the interest in ensuring the public's understanding of the judicial process and of significant public events," McKeown wrote, quoting an earlier decision by a different panel on the federal appeals court. While the litigation lasted years and cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, it landed a significant victory for the media, reaffirming Ninth Circuit case law on the burden parties face to keep court files secret.

..., he learned that all the documents in Kenneth Kamakana's case against the city were under seal, ...

• News Media and the Law
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 3, July 2006

• Court-System Transparency

Over the past decade, the federal courts became the world's most transparent court system by switching from paper to electronic filing, resolving daunting privacy problems, and posting their case files on the Internet. Now they are embarking on a second, equally important transformation-the use of relational forms from which court data can be extracted automatically. This Article describes the technology and seeks to project and evaluate the effects of that second transformation. If it occurs, the second transformation would create millions of windows into the courts at virtually no cost to the government. Policymakers, litigants, and the public would be able to see and understand the patterns of judicial decisionmaking-who wins what and how often. That would provide policy makers the ...

...Kenneth Ayotte & David A. Skeel, Jr., An Efficiency-Based ... to seal records in bankruptcy cases); Kamakana v. City & County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1180 ...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 94-2, February 2009