A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted a request by the Justice Department to make public grand jury documents in the case involving Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in prison for sex trafficking.

In a written order, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said he would allow the unsealing of the documents because of a recent law passed by Congress, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Engelmayer said he was putting in place a mechanism to protect victims from the inadvertent release of materials that would identify them or otherwise invade their privacy.

The order followed a similar one from a judge in Florida on Friday that allowed for the unsealing of documents in a case against Epstein.

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