Barnett v. Bank of America Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there is a common law right to privacy that protects against PIA disclosure in some circumstances
• holding that a public employee “does not forfeit all right to maintain the confidentiality of his personal affairs merely because he has disclosed facts about those affairs to a unit of government.”
• holding that requested workers’ compensation information, including “the claimant, the nature of his injuries, his employer and his attorney,” did not fall within any recognized zone of privacy and therefore must be disclosed
• holding that “the Act does not allow either the custodian of records or a court to consider the cost or method of supplying requested information in determining whether such information should be disclosed”
• recognizing both a federal constitutional right and a separate common-law right to privacy
• requiring requestor to show that private information is of “legitimate public concern” before disclosure may be required under PIA section 552.101

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).