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the Speech or Debate Clause, or the forced administration of antipsychotic drugs.
See Midland Asphalt, 489 U.S. at 799; Sell, 539 U.S. at 176-77. The rights
implicated here do not meet the high threshold of expanding the collateral order
exception in criminal cases beyond those limited categories. Rather, this Order
falls within the category of rulings addressing pretrial discovery, which are
generally unreviewable on interlocutory appeal. See Pappas, 94 F.3d at 798;
Caparros, 800 F.2d at 24-26. Maxwell has identified no public interest or value
that is “sufficiently strong to overcome the usual benefits of deferring appeal until
litigation concludes.” Mohawk, 558 U.S. at 107.
19. Maxwell seems to claim that reversal of Judge Nathan’s Order
is necessary in order to prevent documents in a civil case from being unsealed.
Even assuming a presentation of criminal discovery materials would affect an
unsealing decision in a civil case — an argument that Judge Nathan found
speculative at best (Ex. F at 3) — a risk of unsealing is not significant enough to
merit interlocutory appeal. See United States v. Martoma, No. 13-4807, 2014 WL
68119, at *1 (2d Cir. Jan. 8, 2014) (concluding that even though the defendant’s
“personal interest in the privacy of embarrassing information is an interest that, as
a practical matter, cannot be vindicated after disclosure,” that interest is
insufficient to merit interlocutory appeal); United States v. Guerrero, 693 F.3d
990, 998 (9th Cir. 2012) (finding no jurisdiction over defendant’s interlocutory
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