A judge has denied a request by news organizations to unseal court records involving the mental competency of Tom Benson when he rewrote his will to give his third wife ownership of the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans.
The news outlets argued public interest in the 2015 case had been heightened by revelations this year that Saints executives engaged in a behind-the-scenes public relations campaign to help the Archdiocese of New Orleans contain the fallout from a clergy abuse crisis.
“I don’t think we have the right as a society to go picking through his medical history,” Reese said. Reese had closed his courtroom throughout the 2015 trial, known in Louisiana as an interdiction, saying secrecy was needed to protect Benson’s medical privacy rights and confidential information about the business operations of the NFL and NBA clubs.
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