More than a dozen news organizations, including CNN, have asked the presiding judge to unseal the full record.

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Meanwhile, the ACLU and EFF got an Alexandria court to unseal court documents in the government investigation of WikiLeaks.

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Motions by the New York Times, Dow Jones and Bloomberg to unseal the case were dismissed by Rakoff earlier this year.

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Washington-based group Judicial Watch has asked a court to unseal the documents.

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In early January, Twitter moved to unseal a secret Department of Justice request for account information from users affiliated with the document-leaking site.

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Attorneys for the creditors in the bankruptcy case, who include more than 575 alleged victims of sexual abuse, have filed a motion for the court to unseal the archbishop's deposition on April 4.

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The prosecution is also arguing against the release of further records, saying hundreds of people still need to be interviewed -- whether again or for the first time -- and that it is too premature to unseal the records.

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The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Providence Journal and the National Catholic Reporter had asked the judge to unseal the documents, saying they could shed light on the Legion's operations and there was no justification to seal them.

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As of Thursday evening, the new pontiff was expected to gain access to the files which have been locked in a safe because the Vatican was due to unseal the papal apartments for the first time since the resignation of Benedict on Feb 28.

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