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It is a whole lot harder to file documents under seal than it used to be.  We recall an MDL in the early 2000s where the parties filed everything under seal over the course of multiple years—litigating for the viewing pleasure of our “friends and family,” as the district judge often chided us.  Times have

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Are protective orders worth the paper they are written on?  We have heard cynical attorneys pose that question, usually in a rhetorical fashion.  But our view has always been that protective orders—which we define here as court orders entered to protect against the disclosure of confidential information—are important and ought to be followed.  This view