Sued a former employer, won. Record is online Superior Court, can it be removed?

bobby sss wrote:

I sued a former employer for unpaid wages. I won. My attorney needed to levy their bank account in order for me to get paid.

Now the case is online on the Superior Court website. Can I get this information removed online? If someone searches my name the case comes up.

I do not mind if the case files are at the court.

Thank you for contacting Superior Court Customer service. I would be happy to remove your court record from our website. It typically takes 15-20 business days to process the online record claim. Once removed, the files will only be available in person. Thank you again for your business. Kind regards, Superior Courts.

So where is the customer service form to fill out?

You're attorney wouldn't know this?

Probably not, because courts usually can't suppress public records except in special circumstances like expungement of criminal arrests and convictions records if there's a reversal/pardon.

However, there are 50 states and multiple courts within each state and they all have different rules and practices. Call up the court clerk who maintains the records and ask. If the court clerk can't help you, talk to a lawyer.

Why would you want the records taken offline? They don't sound like they show anything bad about you.

Why are you trying to hide what you did? Own it.

Not sure what the OP wants to hide, but I would think twice before hiring someone who sued his former employer.

maybe this wrote:

Not sure what the OP wants to hide, but I would think twice before hiring someone who sued his former employer.

I agree, it would be a concern. Employee could be 100% in the right and the suit could be 100% justified, or he could be some kind of con man. It cuts both ways.

74848482929292 wrote:

Call up the court clerk who maintains the records and ask. If the court clerk can't help you, talk to a lawyer.

Why would you want the records taken offline? They don't sound like they show anything bad about you.

Thanks for the advice. I will go to the court clerk. The info does not show any bad info about me. I thought if I could get it removed I will try. If not, no biggie.

Probably not because it's your state's public records requirements. The good news is, unless you are applying for an executive level position, most employers don't summarily do an internet search on you. Overtime as more things are posted online about you, it will move off of the 1st page. Btw, one of the worst problems with public records is some states make misdemeanor charges against you public even if you are found innocent.

maybe this wrote:

Not sure what the OP wants to hide, but I would think twice before hiring someone who sued his former employer.

That's why he's trying to get it removed.

I think it's wrong for people like you to think that. I had a guy come to my house the other day who has his own furniture repair business. He must be about 70.

I asked him how he got into the business. He said he used to do roofing but a new guy on the job moved the ladder he was on 40 feet high and he broke multiple bones, maybe his back and couldn't work for like 6 months. With two kids, he obviously had to file worker's comp.

He got healthy again and was got a job managing a gas station. He said he had two different jobs. WIthin a year, both somehow found out he had filed worker's comp and fired him.

I imagine that wouldn't happen in the year 2017 - bit it shouldn't have happened in 1967 either. He said he realized he had to start his own business because no one would employ him.

What had he done? Nothing other than have his back broken.

Ask your attorney to file a petition for the court to seal your information.

It depends on your state's sealing/expungement practices.

I heard a similar story about a guy who had great credentials but no one would hire him and had to start his own business.

He had any Ivy League education and came from money. However, he didn't have a basic grasp of grammar and the English language. Anything he wrote had multiple grammatical errors and typos.

Since no one would hire him he decided to launch a website with his brother.

I wonder if his dreams came true.

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I heard a similar story about a guy who had great credentials but no one would hire him and had to start his own business.

He had any Ivy League education and came from money. However, he didn't have a basic grasp of grammar and the English language. Anything he wrote had multiple grammatical errors and typos.

Since no one would hire him he decided to launch a website with his brother.

I wonder if his dreams came true.[/quote]

Well played.

State laws generally have a process to seal a civil court record in a civil case. I do not know the law of the OP's state, but generally the process to seal a court record does not completely wipe the slate clean. It is generally intended to take very sensitive information out of the public domain. Trade secrets and child abuse are generally regarded as information that can be sealed because the importance of open courts is outweighed by the harm of having the information in the public record. However, opinions and judgments of the court generally cannot be sealed.

In companies with professional HR departments, the standard practice is to not look up civil litigation history when hiring employees because that can be the basis for a discrimination lawsuit. If you do not hire a woman or minority and get sued, you will have an uphill battle if the background check you ran shows that the prospective employee had filed a discrimination lawsuit.