Sealing refers to what action?

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Sealing refers to what action?

Sealing is the act of restricting public access to a court record. Under Rule 17, the authority to implement that restriction rests with the clerk, who carries out the actual step of applying the seal to the record. This makes it an administrative action by the clerk, rather than something issued directly by a judge or just noted as a docket entry. A motion for seal is simply the request to seal, and a court order would be the judge’s directive; the sealing itself, per Rule 17, is the clerk’s action to restrict access.

Sealing is the act of restricting public access to a court record. Under Rule 17, the authority to implement that restriction rests with the clerk, who carries out the actual step of applying the seal to the record. This makes it an administrative action by the clerk, rather than something issued directly by a judge or just noted as a docket entry. A motion for seal is simply the request to seal, and a court order would be the judge’s directive; the sealing itself, per Rule 17, is the clerk’s action to restrict access.

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