Appeals Court Takes Major Step Toward Unsealing Epstein Documents

Appeals Court Takes Major Step Toward Unsealing Epstein Documents
Jeffrey Epstein in a booking photograph in Palm Beach, Florida, on July 27, 2006. Palm Beach Sheriff's Office
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A federal appeals court is on the verge of unsealing hundreds of documents that could provide new evidence against alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and many of his potential cohorts.

On March 11, a three-judge panel at the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City gave all parties involved in a multi-year attempt to unseal court documents from a 2015 defamation case until March 19 to establish why the documents should remain sealed.