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It sounded like the documents had been public (somehow).. so I'm guessing he's just wanting to get out ahead of it.
by enjo 16y ago
It sounded like the documents had been public (somehow).. so I'm guessing he's just wanting to get out ahead of it.
- grellas 16y agoDocuments produced through discovery in a typical litigation are produced directly to the other side and are not routinely filed with the court. Thus, such documents are "public" in the sense that they wind up in the hands of the adverse party and are not normally confidential - thus empowering such adverse party to disclose them if it wishes - but they do not normally wind up in the public record unless a party takes affirmative steps to publish them in some manner. In other words, Mr. Arrington's legal team had possession of these documents but the world would not have known about them from the court record or any other public source unless Mr. Arrington took steps to publish them as he did here.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoThe article mentions that they have gone to some length to get (permission to publish) these documents. So yes, this is very deliberate.