Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[b]asie fairness dictates” the identification of defendant law firms’ accusers when defendants “stand publicly accused of serious violations of federal law [Title VII violations]”
• holding that civil rights plaintiffs’ right to remain anonymous was “plainly 8 independent and easily separable from ... their allegations that defendants have engaged in illegal sex discrimination” (quotation marks and citations omitted)
• stating that “[b]asic fairness” counsels against allowing a plaintiff to proceed anonymously while a private entity must defend itself publicly
• noting that “courts have allowed plaintiffs to use fictitious names” where the plaintiffs have “had to admit that they either had violated state laws or government regulations or wished to engage in prohibited conduct”
• denying anonymity for women lawyers who had joined a title VII sex discrimination suit against two law firms
• denying anonymity for women lawyers who had joined a title VII sex discrimination suit against two law firms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).