Secret Murdoch succession fight to remain sealed after judge rejects media petition for access

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 8:15 AM EDT, Fri September 13, 2024


New York CNN — A Nevada judge has ruled that billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family can hold a secret court battle over the future of his vast media empire behind closed doors.

The judge rejected a petition by a coalition of media organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, Reuters and ABC, to unseal the case and allow access.

Though the Murdoch family is fighting over the trust and who will ultimately have control of the family businesses after the 93-year-old’s death, all of those involved agreed to sealing the case.

Nevada offers one of the most private court settings for issues like family trust decisions, allowing parties and judges to lock the cases behind closed doors to such an extreme degree that their very existence is not even publicized on court dockets. The existence of the case remained under wraps until The New York Times first reported on it in July. In a now-public docket, the case is only identified as “The Matter of the Doe 1 Trust, PR23-00813“.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/media/secret-murdoch-succession-fight-seal-media-nevada/index.html

[nuxvomica]

1. Overriding public interest in this

I think the media access is not only justified but should override privacy concerns. If the family wants to keep things secret they should not be so flagrantly influencing the public sphere.

[wolfie001]

2. After undermining Democracy in the US, this f6cker gets to do his succession in secrecy

That surely pans out with our compromised judicial system. Always on sale and to the highest bidder.