A judge rejects Andrea Tantaros' argument that professional jeopardy overcomes a presumption of access to judicial documents.

A New York federal judge has decided to lift the veil from a case captioned as [Under Seal] v. [Under Seal]. It turns out that Michael Krechmer is suing former Fox News personality Andrea Tantaros for allegedly breaching an agreement pertaining to his ghostwriting services on her book Tied Up in Knots. Here's how the book is described on Amazon: "Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular and outspoken stars, exposes how the rightful feminist pursuit of equality went too far, and how the unintended pitfalls of that power trade have made women (and men!) miserable."

Krechmer filed his lawsuit in in October 2016, and amazingly, it's only coming to light now. There's a reason for this. According to an opinion and order from U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest on Thursday, Krechmer and Tantaros entered into a collaboration agreement in May 2015. The deal included a confidentiality provision. Krechmer alleges that a couple months later, the two agreed to terminate the agreement in favor of a new "Ghostwriting Agreement," where he'd be paid a flat fee of $150,000. But the latter was an oral deal. Tantaros allegedly did not want to negotiate a deal with Krechmer's agent because she "feared" it would "cause her editor to discover that she was not writing the book herself" and the book's publisher, Harper Collins, "would cancel the book if they discovered that there were any negative issues in the writing process, particularly since she was already running more than two years behind schedule."