Epstein Secrets

URT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant, v. SHARON CHURCHER, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, Respondents, JULIE BROWN, MIAMI HERALD MEDIA COMPANY, Intervenors-Appellants No. 18-2868 Appellee Maxwell's Motion to Reconsider and Vacate the Court's Order to Show Cau

N CHURCHER, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, Respondents, JULIE BROWN, MIAMI HERALD MEDIA COMPANY, Intervenors-Appell

sistance to discovery on grounds of privacy, confidentiality, secrecy, sensitivity and embarrassment. Even if Lugosch could overrule Martindell and Gambale with respect to the strong presumption against access when there is reasonable reliance on a protective order, the Lugosch 5In Lugosch, this Court

closure of these materials to permit Defendant to make application to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for a more extended stay."); Brown v. Maxwell, 929 F.3d 41, 54 (2d. Cir. 2019) (recognizing likelihood of future appeals in this matter). 1. There are new, intervening and significan

a July 29, 2020 Page 2 courts have recognized, temporary stays of unseal orders are appropriate so that "[t]he genie is [not] out of the bottle," Gambale v. Deutsche Bank AG, 377 F.3d 133, 144 (2d Cir. 2004), before the interested parties have an opportunity to seek review of the orders. See, e.g., Un

T COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Virginia L. Giuffre, Plaintiff, v. Ghislaine Maxwell, Defendant. Case No.: 15-cv-07433-RWS INTERVENORS' JULIE BROWN AND MIAMI HERALD MEDIA CO.'S RESPONSE TO MAXWELL'S OBJECTIONS TO UNSEALING Sanford L. Bohrer Christine N. Walz 31 West 52nd Street New York, NY

nd these documents should be unsealed in their entirety. The objections mischaracterize the governing law, including the Second Circuit's ruling in Brown v. Maxwell, 929 F.3d 41 (2d. Cir. 2019); rely upon general "alleged countervailing interests" against disclosure that are not supported by the exten

irst, courts in this Circuit have routinely ordered unsealing of documents in cases with protective orders or confidentiality provisions. See, e.g., Gambale v. Deutsche Bank AG, 377 F.3d 133, 143 (2d Cir. 2004) (unsealing judicial document despite party's claim that it had settled claim to "avoid public