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SPEARS’ SIDE WANTS TO KEEP CASE CLOSED

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for Britney Spears asked a court commissioner Monday to keep county authorities from reviewing court filings in the pop star's child custody dispute, saying it would be best for her two young sons.

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services is a "large bureaucracy with thousands of employees" where the details of the case could easily leak out, argued Thomas Paine Dunlap, an attorney for Spears.

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