Wednesday, March 02, 2005

~ California divorce records - unsealed ~

From the Los Angeles Times comes this California Superior Court update sure to calm the fears of private investigators...
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Monday that a new state law permitting divorce case documents to be sealed in their entirety — even if only a small portion contains personal information — violates the 1st Amendment.
PI News Link reported on the story in December of Ronald Burkle, who succeeded in having part of his divorce file sealed. This recent shift of the winds was reported in the blogosphere and over here, a seemingly different point of view.