The New York Times is reporting that A judge has ordered that most court records from a 1994 lawsuit by Teresa Heinz Kerry and her sons regarding the airplane crash that killed Senator H. John Heinz III be made public.
While lawyers for the Heinz family and estate have appealed to the State Supreme Court to take the case....Judge Tressler said he had originally agreed to seal the records to minimize the danger of an unfair trial because of publicity about the case. However, the case was settled before trial.
He ruled that reasons given by Heinz family lawyers - which referred to the family's privacy and security and the fact that the records had been sealed for eight years - did not rise to that level.
