This is a quote from an email I sent to attorneys for Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC. They were a defendant in an invasion of privacy and FDCPA claim. Judge Lee P. Rudofsky granted PRA summary judgment, costs and confidentiality of anything and everything PRA wanted to keep under wraps.

“Health insurance company’s interest in sealing, on motion to stay Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) suit against it, documents including written discovery, dates of phone calls to plaintiff, how it had obtained cell phone number called, and call logs, was not outweighed by public’s right of access to judicial records; insurance company designated the information as proprietary and made bald assertions of competitive harm, but none of the information contained any proprietary or sensitive information that would place insurance company at a competitive disadvantage if it were unsealed. Communications Act of 1934 § 227, 47 U.S.C.A. § 227.”
Marden’s Ark, Inc. v. UnitedHealth Grp., Inc., 534 F. Supp. 3d 1038 (D. Minn. 2021)

Hopefully a journalist organization or public interest group will file a suit to unseal the documents in Hammett v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC,, Eastern District of Arkansas case 4:21-cv-00189-BSM. (Judge Rudofsky finally recused himself while my petition for writ of certiorari to SCOTUS was pending, 24-6113.)