Judge Lee P. Rudofsky granted a motion to seal anything and everything Big Business Billionaire Portfolio Recovery Associates wants to conceal. I asked the Supreme Court to unseal four documents that I filed for my writ of certiorari. SCOTUS wrote “Motion Granted”. So, I posted the documents.

The next day, someone on the Supreme Court staff returned a call to me. She said the justices only approved the part of my motion to file the sealed documents, not the part about unsealing. I asked for something in writing, which never was done, but I took down the documents to alleviate any strife.

It didn’t work, because I didn’t understand “hosting”. A person could not go to my site and find the document, but if they had a link from before the document was removed from the post, they could pull the document up from my “media library”.

What was happening was that while I removed the link from my blog post, the file itself was still hosted on my WordPress site and accessible to anyone who has the direct URL. Removing the link from the post doesn’t delete or restrict access to the file—it simply removes the clickable path to it from the blog page.

To prevent anyone from accessing the document via the URL, the issue had to be addressed at the hosting level. How is it done? Here’s one way:

Delete the File

• Log into your WordPress admin dashboard.
• Go to the Media Library (usually found under “Media” in the menu).
• Locate the file and delete it.
• This will make the URL invalid, so anyone clicking on it will receive a “404 Not Found” error.

Here is an easier question to answer. Why didn’t the goliath debt buying company’s IT department or the IT people at Rose Law Firm and Troutman Pepper tell me the four clicks needed to make their super-secret documents disappear? Because they wanted to destroy 15 years of work I have done exposing court corruption and building my audience. They were not acting too concerned about mitigating damages to their confidentiality.