Wal-Mart Class Action Filings Unsealed

A whole lot of pleadings filed under seal in Savaglio v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are now a matter of public record, thanks to the Berkeley Daily Planet and a ruling by the First District Court of Appeal, which held last month that a litigant who has not properly brought a motion to seal documents under California Rules of Court is not entitled to have publicly filed records in Court of Appeal writ proceedings sealed, even if they had been filed under seal in Superior Court. You can read the opinion here in pdf or word format.