DirecTV, FTC Ordered to Clean Up 'Muddy Record' of Sealing Motions

Pointing to "a muddy record" that DirecTV and the FTC created, U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam of San Francisco in an order (in Pacer) Friday gave the two a Tuesday deadline for a jointly prepared chart summarizing the documents sought to be sealed and their positions. In his order, Haywood said with it wasn't clear who wanted what briefs and exhibits sealed in the agency's motion for partial summary judgment, due to the piles of administrative motions and subsequent corrections and oppositions. The commission is suing the company over advertising practices (see 1503110042).