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The Epstein saga jumped back into the headlines last month when a federal judge in Florida ruled that federal prosecutors, including then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, violated the rights of victims by hiding plans to foreclose a federal prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein (pictured). | Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images Appeals court moves toward unsealing in Jeffrey Epstein-related underage sex suit

A federal appeals court has moved to quickly unseal long-secret court filings related to financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual contact with underage girls, but one judge is expressing some disagreement with the plan.

Two judges on a 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals panel considering motions to unseal records in an Epstein-connected lawsuit said in an order Monday that they plan to make public several key submissions in the case unless the parties make a compelling argument in the next eight days why the records shouldn’t be released.

The order from Judges Jose Cabranes and Christopher Droney calls for unsealing a summary judgment motion that lawyers for Epstein friend Ghislaine Maxwell filed in a bid to knock down a lawsuit. That suit, brought by Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre and filed in federal court in New York, accused Maxwell of recruiting teenage girls to provide sexual services for the wealthy investment manager.

The appeals court order also says filings opposing that motion would be released, along with U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet’s ruling rejecting the motion.

“Should the parties fail to establish good cause, the decision and such materials will be unsealed,” the appeals court said in the new order.

Cabranes and Droney were among three judges who heard arguments last week from lawyers for Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich and the Miami Herald — all of whom are seeking greater access to the largely-sealed record in the suit, which Maxwell settled for an undisclosed sum after Sweet turned down the motion.

During the tense court session, all three judges sounded receptive to the arguments for unsealing, which faced resistance only from Maxwell’s attorneys.

However, in the order released Monday, the appeals court said the third judge on the panel — Rosemary Pooler — partially dissented and does not favor quick unsealing of materials attached to the summary judgment pleadings. Those attachments reportedly include derogatory information about some of the witnesses in the case.

The Epstein saga jumped back into the headlines last month when a federal judge in Florida ruled that federal prosecutors, including then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, violated the rights of victims by hiding plans to foreclose a federal prosecution of Epstein in exchange for his guilty pleas to prostitution-related offenses in a state court.

Acosta, now labor secretary, has defended his handling of the case.