unseal
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Media organizations successfully petitioned the court to unseal the documents.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2026
It also seeks to unseal the FBI's affidavit used to obtain the warrant from a federal magistrate judge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
Berman must approve requests to unseal documents from the case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
In order to unseal the Epstein documents, Congress was waiting for one last signature to put the matter to a vote.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
But for the rest, I unseal a test-strip kit.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
His attorney, Stacey Hegge, argued that Sanford should be able to inspect and participate in redacting the affidavits before the circuit court unseals them, to avoid any disclosure of trade secrets.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Justice Department unseals charges against Huawei, Meng and several of the companies’ subsidiaries, alleging not only violation of trade sanctions but also the theft of trade secrets.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
September 2005: A judge unseals the Philadelphia grand jury report.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2018
He pledged Thursday not to release the alleged victims’ names or identifying information if he unseals the records.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
He shows them the envelope, unseals it with a letter opener, and pulls out five typewritten pages.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
The court records were unsealed this month after ProPublica moved to make them public, with the help of attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the law firm Shaw Keller.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
When the indictment against the Google employee was unsealed, the company’s chief legal officer, Neal Kumar, posted on X, “Say it with me now—it’s not anonymous.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
She stepped down as mayor hours after the plea agreement was unsealed earlier this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
The indictment, unsealed on Tuesday, involves the company's Singapore- and India-based operations.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
A glance up the stairway showed the door at the top still closed but unsealed, exactly as it had been at noon.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Fulton County officials filed a lawsuit demanding their return and District Judge JP Boulee, a Trump nominee, ordered the unsealing on Tuesday of the search warrant affidavit used to justify the seizure.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
The order to publish the materials followed a similar ruling from a judge in Florida on Friday, which allowed for the unsealing of documents related to the state's investigation against Epstein that began in 2005.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Similar unsealing requests, citing the new law, are pending before the two federal judges in New York who presided over the Epstein and Maxwell cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Last week, the judge overseeing Maxwell’s case, Paul A. Engelmayer, ruled that unsealing grand jury materials “casually or promiscuously” would erode confidence in people called to testify before future panels.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025
She had taught him all her lore in herbals and healing, and all she knew of the crafts of finding, binding, mending, unsealing and revealing.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
