On Remand, News Group Dismisses Suit Over Hawaiian Medical Records Sealing Rule

(October 15, 2024, 1:34 PM EDT) -- HONOLULU — Six weeks after the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found a Hawaii Court Records Rules (HCRR) requirement that medical and health records be sealed in court proceedings to be “overbroad” under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a nonprofit news organization that had initiated the challenge to the requirement dismissed its suit in Hawaii federal court....