Douglas Mirell appeared as volunteer counsel for the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, pressing the court to unseal transcripts from juror dismissal hearings that had been kept under a blanket protective order. He argued that the secrecy was fueling a "persuasive regime of rumor, speculation and innuendo" around juror removals, and that narrowly tailored redactions — not wholesale suppression — were the proper remedy, drawing a careful distinction between dismissed jurors who had gone public and those who had not. Mirell's advocacy extended across several access disputes during the trial, including motions related to the McKinny recordings and a media camera incident, consistently pushing for greater transparency in a case where the court's instinct often ran toward sealing.