The Sealed Calendar.
PA Federal Courts.
Every protective-order sunset, statutory unsealing date, gag-order expiration, and phased settlement disclosure across EDPA, WDPA, the Third Circuit, and PA bankruptcy courts in the next 90 days. The premise is simple: most seals have a structure, and the structure is usually public, even when the sealed content is not. Reading the structure is the story before the story.
Sealed material scheduled to become public this week.
Items in this window are within the operational horizon for editorial action. If an expected unsealing occurs, the Brief or Field Note pipeline is pre-positioned. If it fails to occur on the scheduled date, that becomes a failure-to-unseal alert (see bottom of page).
No scheduled unsealings, protective-order sunsets or gag-order expirations with a public date in the next seven days across the tracked courts, as of October 22, 2026.
Sealed material likely to become public in the next month.
These items are early enough to research, brief, and prepare interpretive infrastructure for. Each entry below is sourced from public dockets and existing Infera reporting. Confidence is per the skill's spec: HIGH = explicit calendar date, MEDIUM = triggering event likely to occur on schedule, LOW = speculative.
No dated PA federal disclosure event located for the next 30 days as of October 22, 2026. The nearest projected item, the Opioid Trust distribution round, sits in the 90-day window below at LOW confidence.
Sealed material projected to become public this quarter.
Quarter-ahead window. Lower confidence per entry by definition; useful for editorial calendar planning and for identifying which forthcoming disclosures justify pre-positioned reporting.
Sealed material scheduled or projected to become public beyond the 90-day window.
The long horizon is where the canonical Infera examples live: statutory destructions, multi-year monitorships, settlements with phased disclosure schedules extending across years. These entries shape Volume I and II Brief planning and inform the Episode roadmap.
The catch-up log: what happened to every entry, and what joined the calendar.
Each tracked item from the June seed, resolved against the record. HAPPENED means something became public or a court acted on access. CHANGED means the premise or date moved, including corrections to this page. A correction worth noting first: the Prospect Medical Holdings bankruptcy is in the Northern District of Texas, Case No. 25-80002 (SGJ), not Delaware.
The secondary signal: when a scheduled unsealing fails to occur.
When a date passes and an expected document does not appear, that is itself a story. The Sealed Calendar tracks each entry's failure-to-unseal alert date and surfaces overdue items here. Patterns of which seals get extended, by which judges, in which case types are themselves a longitudinal story across enough events. Apply the blind-spot auditor before treating any single non-unsealing as news; a seal not lifting on schedule may be administrative, not significant.
No confirmed failures to unseal, June 7 to October 22. Three June projections (the Q2 opioid monitor report, the Crozer sale-status exhibits and the August PUC filings) produced no disclosure, but each rested on a premise that could not be verified, so under the blind-spot discipline they are logged above as CHANGED, not as failures.
Methodology · how to read this page honestly
What this page is. A forward calendar of disclosure events in PA federal courts, powered by the infera-sealed-document-watcher skill. The premise is that most seals have a structure (duration, sunset clause, triggering event, review cycle) and that the structure is usually public even when the sealed content is not. Mining the structure produces a calendar.
What it is not. This page does not display sealed content. It displays the public schedule on which sealed content is expected to become available. It does not solicit, request, or process sealed material. Entries are scheduled-future events, not current disclosures.
JURISDICTIONS COVERED
- US District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (EDPA)
- US District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania (MDPA), added October 2026 for its Local Rule 79.5 two-year unsealing rule
- US District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania (WDPA)
- US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (PA component)
- US Bankruptcy Court for EDPA and WDPA
- Adjacent: PA OAG and Opioid Trust settlement administrations; PA PUC dockets with confidential treatment; out-of-state bankruptcy courts holding PA matters (Prospect Medical Holdings, N.D. Tex.); PA appellate courts deciding access to sealed records
SOURCES (PRIMARY)
- PACER and the Free Law Project's RECAP archive (docket entries, sealing-order text where available)
- EDPA / WDPA / 3rd Cir local rules on sealed records
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 6(e) and 32(e); 5 USC §552(a)(2); other governing statutes
- PA Office of Attorney General settlement administration filings
- PA PUC docket portal for confidential-treatment requests
- Existing Infera reporting (notably Mechanism Brief № 002 for the Crozer entry and Brief № 003 for the PUC entry)
CONFIDENCE LABELS (PER SKILL SPEC)
CURRENT STATE
This page launched on June 7, 2026 as a chassis seeded from existing Infera reporting. On October 22, 2026 it was brought current by hand: every June entry was resolved against the record, the Crozer court line was corrected to the Northern District of Texas, and new items were added only where a public source supports them. The daily RECAP and CourtListener wiring is still the next step; until then, updates are manual and limited to major changes.
Failure-to-unseal handling. A scheduled unsealing that does not occur on its expected date is escalated to the failure-to-unseal section after the alert date passes and the docket shows no unsealing activity. Per the skill's own discipline, the blind-spot auditor is applied before any non-unsealing is treated as news; the most common explanation is administrative delay, not concealment.
Out-of-scope categories. Certain seal categories (grand jury materials under FRCrP 6(e), juvenile records, certain national-security materials) are tracked at the metadata level only. The Sealed Calendar observes their statutory schedule but does not process the underlying material when unsealing occurs. See infera-sealed-document-watcher/RULES-AND-METHODOLOGY.md Section III.
Corrections. If an entry on this page is wrong, missing, or out of date, email infera@melophon.com. Corrections logged within 24 hours; substantive errors logged with date and changelog at the bottom of this page once the corrections register is built.