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Following Federal Court Practice, Florida State Courts Begin Secret Dockets

Loaded on July 15, 2011

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Judicial Misconduct, Judiciary, Disclosure of Records. Location: Florida.

While court dockets and files are required to be open for public viewing under the U.S. Constitution, more and more courts are disregarding that provision and hiding selected case from the public’s view. In some cases, the matter totally disappears from court dockets.

PLN previously detailed the secret court docket ...

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