#judicial-discretion

#judicial-discretion

We are once again confronted with the denial of a sealing request in a Civil Rights Law article 6 proceeding - by the same Supreme Court justice - predicated on amorphous 'public interest concerns,' wrote Appellate Judge Eddie J. McShan in a ruling, highlighting the pattern of Walsh's decisions.

Eustathios Rhomaios was a prominent Byzantine judge and jurist during the late-10th and early- to mid-11th century. He studied Roman Law and began his career under Basil II (reign 976 to 1025) and became the chief judge during the mid-1020s. His legal decisions, collected and compiled into a document called the Peira ('Experience') by a younger colleague of his, were not only celebrated during his own lifetime but also hailed in later ages as 'the most elegant and valued.'