The Navy is no longer allowed to shroud its criminal trials in secrecy and must provide public access to hearings and records, a federal judge ruled last month, the result of a yearslong lawsuit filed by ProPublica.
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ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U.S. Navy Cases

A judge ruled that the Navy’s long-standing policy to withhold records from its criminal trials violated the First Amendment.

^{Diego Sorbara (ProPublica)}