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IN RE COPLEY PRESS, INC.

No. 07-72143.

518 F.3d 1022 (2008)

In re COPLEY PRESS, INC., Intervenor-appellee. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ismael Higuera-Guerrero, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 4, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vijay Shanker, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Karen P. Hewitt, U.S. Attorney and Laura E. Duffy, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Guylyn R. Cummins, Harold W. Fuson, Jr., Judith L. Fanshaw and Scott A. Wahrenbrock, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA, for the intervenor-appellee.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, DOROTHY W. NELSON and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:

We consider the district court's order unsealing the transcript of a plea colloquy, a plea agreement's "cooperation addendum" and the documents supporting a motion to seal the plea proceedings.

Facts

Ismael Higuera-Guerrero ran a drug cartel in Mexico along with Javier Arrellano-Felix and Arturo Villareal-Heredia. After U.S. authorities captured the three men, Higuera-Guerrero agreed to plead guilty and to cooperate with the...

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