Fargo Forum To Fight Sealed Records Order In Fighting Sioux Case
Forum Communications Co. plans to fight a judge’s decision to seal documents in the University of North Dakota’s lawsuit with the NCAA.
Matthew Von Pinnon, editor of The Forum, said there is no compelling reason to keep the case file involving the Fighting Sioux nickname closed.
Northeast Central District Judge Lawrence Jahnke ruled earlier this month all future filings in the case should be sealed to aid settlement talks.
Forum Communications Co. will file a motion this week requesting Jahnke’s order be vacated or amended.
“This case has huge public interest for the state of North Dakota,” Von Pinnon said. “It involves the state’s largest public institution. We couldn’t let this decision stand without a fight.”
Von Pinnon is right. There is no compelling reason to keep this case sealed, outside of protecting the NCAA (who requested the order, it was opposed by North Dakota AG Wayne Stenehjem) from embarrassing revelations about their silly and selectively-enforced policy on “abusive” sports mascots and nicknames.
I’m surprised the Forum is actually doing something about it, but I guess even stopped clocks are right twice a day. Now if we could just Forum reporters quit plagiarizing left-wing press releases, ask lunatic Presidential candidates some questions we actually want to know the questions to and actually challenge Dorgan, Conrad and Pomeroy on some of their policy bait-and-switch maneuvers we’d really be getting somewhere.
But I won’t hold my breath.
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