After allegations arose that the records of Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert's divorce were illegally sealed, the judge who ruled in the case is speaking out about his decision to make those records private.

John Gardner, an associate district judge in Pottawatomie County, Okla., released his order to seal Shelton and Lambert's divorce records on Tuesday (July 28), saying, "If the pleadings in this case were made public, it would significantly compromise the personal and financial privacy of the parties" (quote via NewsOK.com).

"There is no legitimate public interest in the personal and financial matters of these parties' dissolution. These parties are entertainers and are not guardians of the public trust," he continues. "Because the matters contained in this case are likely to be of significant media interest but are private in nature and not matters which are of a legitimate public interest, there is a compelling privacy interest which outweighs the public's interest in the record."

According to Oklahoma state law, a judge may seal civil, divorce and other public court records only if there is a compelling privacy-related reason that outweighs public interest. The sealing order must remain public, and only the pieces of the case that need to be kept confidential are allowed to be sealed.

Still, former Oklahoma state Rep. Aaron Stiles, an attorney who wrote the law, maintains that the law is still being broken.

"I seriously doubt any personal or financial privacy information has or will be filed. I've never seen this done in any divorce case," Stiles says. "If there was privacy information filed, then the court should  admonish the attorney who filed the information and strike the lines from the pleadings."

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