Continued from article posted here on New Year's Day, 2019.
It is important to note also that there is a pretty reliable sign that a judge is more likely than not to sign an umbrella secrecy order in any given case: The judge adopts the secrecy order proposed by the parties and their lawyers in the case because the court's budget does not permit the hiring of all the people that it would take to review all the documents which the parties in a large case want to keep secret. Signing an umbrella secrecy order minimizes any need to spend time and money reviewing each and every document or set of documents that one party or another wants the judge to mark "confidential." Instead, the parties and their lawyers mark each document "confidential." In some cases, an umbrella secrecy order totally eliminates the need to review documents for confidentiality purposes.
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