Cahill v. Nike - filed March 19, 2025

Civil Procedure A district court had authority to order a news organization to return or destroy confidential documents that plaintiff’s lawyer had inadvertently sent to a reporter where the news organization had intervened in the case and thereby become a party, subject to the court’s inherent case-management authority; the news organization did not have a First Amendment right to withhold the documents because pretrial discovery proceedings are not public components of the judicial process, and a court can police access to information disclosed in discovery; the district court’s exercise of its inherent authority over parties’ access to the fruits of discovery furthered a substantial government interest unrelated to the suppression of expression. Cahill v. Nike - filed March 19, 2025 Cite as 2025 S.O.S. 24-2199 Full text click here >http://sos.metnews.com/sos.cgi?0325//24-2199.