Judge Doumar said he would seal the documents and review them privately.
The Legislature tried to seal the documents but a federal judge ordered them made public in 1998.
News organizations had argued for the release of the material, but Judge Melville indicated he had no choice but to seal the documents given the extensive public interest and the possibility that the information could violate the parties' privacy rights.
Of the church's move to seal the documents, Dr. Boswell Tabler, 52, a psychiatrist who recently came forward to accuse a priest of abuse, said, "The church says they're doing this to protect us, when in fact, I think it's to protect themselves".
In March the international court of justice ordered Australia to stop any spying operations against Timor-Leste and to seal the documents and data seized in the December Asio raids - all of which came as an embarrassment to Brandis and his swaggering assertions about the raid and our security.
Conoco's lawyers requested that the federal judge who originally sealed the document, W. Earl Britt, hold Ms. Mitchell and her colleague, Cory Reiss, who was also writing about the case and obtained information about the settlement from other sources, in contempt.
In a letter dated Dec. 6, Dr. Egilman informed Lilly's lawyers, as was required by the order sealing the documents, that he had been subpoenaed.
"We cleared it with our lawyers," he said, who said that any order sealing the documents would apply only to the parties to the lawsuit.
Courts have sealed the documents related to Western Union's compliance efforts, making it harder for outsiders to assess its performance.The monitor may complete a new report on Western Union's progress in the next month, though distribution of that, too, could be curtailed.
The court had sealed the documents but the DCMS committee used rarely deployed parliamentary powers to obtain them from the Six4Three founder, during a business trip to London.
