Posted on 07/17/2009 10:24:14 PM PDT by Red Steel
LOS ANGELES - Dealing a blow to the U.S. Senate candidacy of Republican Jack Ryan, a California judge ruled that several sealed divorce records likely to embarrass the candidate and his ex-wife should be opened to the public.
Ruling on a request brought by attorneys for the Tribune and WLS-TV, Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider acknowledged that the resulting publicity from the disclosure would be harmful to the couple's son, a key argument Ryan had raised in seeking to keep the documents from public view.
But Schnider said he had weighed the public interest of disclosure against the private interests of the Ryans and their child. "In the end," Schnider found, "the balance tips slightly to the public.
"They were aware they were in a public court system and protection from embarrassment cannot be a basis for keeping from the public what's put in public courts," said Schnider, referring to Ryan and his ex-wife, actress Jeri Lynn Ryan. Additionally, Schnider said, "the openness of court files must be maintained, so that the public ... can be assured that there is no favoritism shown to the rich and the powerful."
The judge did not elaborate on the nature of the allegations.
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Ryan is facing Democrat Barack Obama for the Senate seat being vacated by one-term Republican Sen. Peter Fitzgerald.
Recent warnings
In recent days, Ryan had begun warning leading Republicans that he expected embarrassing information about him would be contained in documents that the judge ordered released
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Portions of the Ryans' divorce records were placed under seal by Schnider in the fall of 2001.
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In the current case, Jeri Ryan has joined her ex-husband in opposing the release.
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Ping. You guys are plugged in. Ammo you can use at the right time.
Worth a try.
bttt
The justification that the judge cited in this case are not that high ....
Oh, the irony. It wouldn't happen to a "better guy" than Obama. ;-)
What kind of judge would intentionally hurt a child?
Jack Ryan is a Republican; different rules doncha' know.
Pinging anyway...
What kind of judge would intentionally hurt a child?
That would be a democrat party judge in this case.
Good point.
That judge was despicable ... probably
part of the “Chicago Swamp Machine.”
And he helped pave the way for the
downfall of our wonderful America.
Jack Ryan is a friend of my family. A very good man. His son was teased like heck after this.
The hypocrisy of blocking the release of a $10 birth certificate is mind boggling. This country, its politics and the media are a shadow of it's former self.
Seriously, we gotta get past that sex thing. It hurts our party more than it hurts the Dhimmies.
Meanwhile the Obama Regime spends millions to hide the Manchurian Candidate’s $10 birth certificate.
Wasn’t this a few years ago?
Now, I will go read the post for better understanding.
Without reading the thread I guess you feel what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
I agree. But how? On that basis? I wish.
Jack Ryan is a friend of my family. A very good man. His son was teased like heck after this.
I’m sorry to hear about his son. But wouldn’t it have been easy for Jeri Ryan to divorce her husband without dragging him through the mud?
Jeri didn’t drag him through the mud publicly. It was a matter she raised in a sealed family court case. It was David Axelrod’s friends at the Chicago Tribune who sued to get the records unsealed... osme judge went along with it of course...
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