| For Taxi Insurance Trial
Requests To Close Courtroom Portend Virtual
Sidebars Without Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 17 –
AmTrust and Wesco Insurance
Company sued KF&B in a
dispute about selling
insurance to limousine and
taxi companies. Now a trial is
looming - a virtual bench
trial.
On
September 17 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Judge Lewis J. Liman held a
pre-trial proceeding. Inner
City Press covered it.
He was
asked, What about sealing the
(virtual) courtroom when talk
turns to purportedly
confidential information?
To his
credit, he declined to rule in
advance. But he said that
while the trial is going on,
if the issue arises, he plan
to convene a "virtual sidebar"
then rule whether to seal the
courtroom or not.
That
would mean turning off the
phone access of the public and
press. But would either have
an opportunity to be heard?
Other formal
written press opposition to
sealing, for example is the
publicly-important case of US
v. Ray, remains pending.
This case is
AmTrust North America, Inc. et
al v. KF&B, Inc.,
17-cv-5340 (Liman)
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