“All Non-Parties” “Are Ordered to Destroy All … Copies” of “Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum”
A curious order yesterday, from U.S. v. Teixeira (a case involving Jack Teixeira, a national guard member “who pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine”):
147 Oct 29, 2024 Judge Indira Talwani: ELECTRONIC ORDER entered. All non-parties who accessed or obtained copies of Defendant’s sentencing memorandum or attachments thereto are ORDERED to destroy all electronic and print copies of these documents. The filings are sealed documents in accordance with this court’s prior order 141. (Talwani, Indira) (Entered: 10/29/2024)
That can’t be right, I think. (Disclosure: After seeing this order, I tried to figure out what was going on, and in the process obtained what appears to be a copy, from the CourtListener site, so the order would have technically bound me, alongside anyone else who likewise accessed the order.) Apparently, not long before, the court granted a motion to file defendant’s full sentencing memorandum under seal; that motion read
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