A federal judge has set a timeline for unsealing court documents in a multimillion-dollar wrongful death and disability lawsuit against Phoenix and a group of police officers.A city spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the order.Court records say Muhammad Muhaymin had post-traumatic stress disorder, claustrophobia and schizophrenia. He died in 2017 after
A major hearing in a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Phoenix was held behind closed courtroom doors Tuesday morning.
The public was blocked from the case involving a disabled Black man who died in an encounter with the city’s police officers in 2017.
First Amendment lawyer Dan Barr said there’s a test for judges to follow before closing a courtroom. There must be a strong chance that an open hearing would hurt the defense in a way that couldn’t be fixed, a no-less-drastic alternative to barring the public, and a strong chance doing so will stop harm to the defense.