SEC v. American Int'l Group, No. 12-5141 (D.C. Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseAppellee Sue Reisinger requested access to reports made by an independent consultant to evaluate AIG's internal policies and past transactions, asserting both common law and First Amendment rights of access. The district court concluded, over the opposition of the SEC and AIG, that Reisinger had a common law right of access and ordered public disclosure of redacted copies of the reports. AIG appealed. The court held that the reports were neither judicial records nor public records. Even assuming the First Amendment right of access applied, the reports were not "aspects of court proceedings" and have no bearing on monitoring judicial conduct. Accordingly, there was no common law or First Amendment right of access to the reports and the court reversed the district court's judgment.
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