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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
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Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004 1:19 p.m. EDT
Judge Orders Release of Heinz Kerry's Financial Records

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/30/134736.shtmlNORRISTOWN, Pa. -
A judge on Friday ordered the unsealing of court records in a 1994 lawsuit by Teresa Heinz Kerry and her sons in the airplane crash that killed her first husband, U.S. Sen. H. John Heinz III.

The judge ruled that nearly all documents related to the case should be made public by Monday. Some records involving confidential materials, probably including details of the multimillionaire ketchup heir's holdings, would remain sealed.

Attorneys for the Heinz family and estate appealed, and the state Supreme Court granted Heinz Kerry's attorneys a stay that would keep the file closed until the court can review their appeal, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News, petitioned to have the records unsealed, arguing that Heinz Kerry could become first lady and the records might contain information in which the public might have an interest. Heinz, 52, and six others, including two children playing in a Montgomery County schoolyard below, were killed when a helicopter collided with an airplane carrying the senator in 1991.

Teresa Heinz Kerry and her three sons filed the wrongful death lawsuit in 1994. In 1995, Heinz Kerry married Sen. John Kerry, now the Democratic nominee for president. Montgomery County Court Judge Paul W. Tressler wrote that under Pennsylvania law, court records "shall be sealed only for extraordinary reasons."

The judge ruled that reasons given by Heinz family lawyers - including the family's privacy, the family's reliance on the sealed record for the last eight years and the family's personal security - did not rise to that level.

Mason Avrigian Jr., an attorney for the publishing company, praised the ruling as "thorough and accurate." © 2004 Associated Press.
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grumpyBB · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:

jataylor11 · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:20 pm Post subject:

How about that incoherent, raisin soaked witch release her entire tax return and not just 2 pages?