As Nameless Air Force Major Sued Marriott over Sexual Assault in NC Order on Sealing Unavailable on PACER

 

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

FEDERAL COURT, May 5 –    A US Air Force Major who was sexually assaulted and robbed in a Marriott in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2022 is pursuing a lawsuit for damages in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.  

 The lawsuit got a smattering of media coverage when it was filed in 2024. Since then, nothing. Inner City Press, exploring the over-sealing of filings in courts nationwide, came upon a sealing order dated May 5, 2026.

In free CourtListener, it is mentioned without any link. But even in for-pay PACER, the order is not there.    It is already a John Doe case with a pseudonym - what more needs to be sealed. And why is the sealing order not available?  

The case is John Doe v. Marriott International, 3:24-cv-344 (W.D.N.C.)

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