The sealing of the identity of a company that fought to block public access to a consumer safety report was improper, a federal appeals court said Wednesday in ordering the disclosure of its name and publication of case documents.
“Company Doe,” represented by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, sued in Maryland federal district court to prevent the Consumer Product Safety Commission from posting an incident report on a government-run online database of product complaints. The report, which is under seal, attributes the death of an infant to one of the company’s products.
