The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the government's application to modify a protective order from a civil defamation case involving Ghislaine Maxwell. This modification allows the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP to comply with a grand jury subpoena related to an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and others for sex trafficking and enticing minors. The court found that the protective order was not improvidently granted and that Maxwell's reliance on it to shield materials from law enforcement was unreasonable. The court also determined that the government demonstrated extraordinary circumstances warranting the modification of the protective order.
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