College admissions scam case set for Sept. 8 trial in Boston

USC's Pat Haden and now two "Varsity Blues" defendants want to file briefs in the college admissions scam case under seal. What they want to share, they argue, is "sensitive, confidential, and personally identifiable information." Haden, the former athletic director at the University of Southern California, has filed a motion in federal court in Boston to "quash a trial subpoena for testimony issued by counsel for defendants," as the Herald has reported. He was just granted permission to state his case in private. Defendants Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson are seeking that same protection to keep their arguments out of the public eye -- for now.