A coalition of media filed a brief Wednesday in the Manhattan-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals supporting a decision that found Vermont court clerks in violation of the First Amendment.
The clerks were blocking public access to new complaints in order to first run through clerical work, often called “docketing.” U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss in Burlington enjoined their blocking practice which had destroyed a centuries-old tradition of public access to new paper filings when they crossed the clerk’s counter.
