Ray Saintonge wrote:
Court judgements (and, for that matter, court filings
by the disputants,
and even trial transcripts) are a matter of public record. This is an
important component to maintaining the transparency of the judicial
system. Privacy should not be a factor with this kind of material.
I think the point about privacy is that (as far as I know) there is a
general consensus that someone sysematically going through court records
to write articles about people who were convicted of drunk driving, or
who were involved in a lawsuit, is a bad idea. We need to have some
kind of independent verification (i.e. WP:NOR) that the incident or
lawsuit is notable and worthy of inclusion in an article, and that in
the case of people of very minor notability, there is no very good
reason to include it.