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COMMISSIONER, AL DOC v. ADVANCE LOCAL MEDIA, LLC

No. 18-12402.

918 F.3d 1161 (2019)

COMMISSIONER, ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Holman CF Warden, Donaldson CF Warden, Defendants-Appellants, v. ADVANCE LOCAL MEDIA, LLC, d.b.a. Alabama Media Group, Montgomery Advertiser, The Associated Press, Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 18, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gabriella E. Alonso , John Gordon Thompson, Jr. , Lightfoot Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham, AL, John Langford , Catherine Martinez , Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, for Intervenors-Appellees.

Thomas R. Govan, Jr. , U.S. Attorney's Office, Lauren Ashley Simpson , Beth Jackson Hughes , Henry M. Johnson , Eric Michael Palmer , Alabama Attorney General's Office, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before TJOFLAT, WILSON, and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.

This appeal concerns the common law right of access to documents upon which a court has relied to decide issues in a case. In the underlying suit, death row inmate Doyle Lee Hamm brought an as-applied challenge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arguing that Alabama's attempt to execute him via lethal injection would violate the...

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