MS: Secrecy surrounds Pickering case filing

It appears that the Mississippi Electronic Courts pilot program is taking a secretive approach in hiding dockets, at least in the Pickering divorce case:

A funny thing happened today, though. I went to check the docket, and MEC acted as if Pickering v. Pickering didn’t exist. The case is currently under seal, but in the past the docket had been available. For the non-lawyers out there, a docket sheet is nothing more than a list of court filings related to a case. That means we could read the titles of the filings, but we couldn’t actually read the contents of them.

Digging around, I found that Section 5(A)(2) of the MEC Administrative Procedures states that “Only court personnel will be able to view docket entries and documents in sealed cases.”

I’ve got a problem with this.

(Via Ipse Blogit: Pickering v. Pickering removed from the Mississippi Electronic Courts online system)



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