Via Art Hinshaw at ADR Prof Blog, the judges in Delaware’s Chancery Court are being sued by the Delaware Coalition for Open Government for operating a private arbitration system. The crux of the lawsuit is that the court’s arbitration program for business disputes, in which sitting judges act as private arbitrators, is essentially a way for court proceedings to be held outside of public view. According to the complaint, this is a violation of the presumptive right to access to judicial proceedings and documents as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Read more about it here.