Another reminder. In an exhaustive 72 page opinion, the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 2018 unanimously affirmed the Pike Circuit Court's unsealing of discovery materials obtained by the Kentucky Attorney General in the Purdue Pharma litigation, including this:

https://www.statnews.com/2019/08/27/purdue-richard-sackler-video-oxycon…

In PURDUE PHARMA L.P., ET AL. VS. BOSTON GLOBE LIFE SCIENCES MEDIA, LLC , D/B/A STAT, the court concluded:

"The circuit court considered the privacy interests of the parties involved and ordered redaction of certain personal information to protect those interests. Having addressed those privacy concerns, the circuit court applied the sliding-scale approach and, effectively, concluded that Purdue did not identify a countervailing public policy entitled to greater weight than the policy favoring free access to public records. In the circuit court's words, Purdue's 'arguments do not overcome the public's common law right of access [to] these documents . . . [and the circuit court] sees no higher value [than] the public (via the media) having access to these discover materials involved' in the litigation.

CONCLUSION

We affirm the Pike Circuit Court's May 11, 2016 order granting STAT's motion to unseal discovery and affording STAT access to those documents.

ALL CONCUR."

https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/court-of-appeals/2018/2016-ca-000…