IDT Corp, et al v. AR Public Law Center

APLC moved to unseal a complaint filed by IDT and Net2Phone in a civil suit against eBay, Skype, and Skype Technologies. APLC moved to intervene in the suit and urged the district court to unseal the complaint in the interest of an open court system. The district court denied APLC's motion. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in its decision to seal sensitive business information included in the complaint where the potential harm of unsealing confidential and competitively sensitive information outweighed ALPC's generalized interest in access to the complaint. However, the court vacated the order and remanded for the district court either to explain why sealing of the entire pleading was warranted or to unseal a redacted version of the complaint. View "IDT Corp, et al v. AR Public Law Center" on Justia Law