Beard v. Akzona, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that publicity element was not met when embarrassing facts about one employee were disclosed to five other employees in management
• finding dismissal appropriate where \only a few ... employees heard the tape recorded message initially and were told not to repeat it\
• recognizing public disclosure of private facts under the Restatement approach
• information disclosed to only five employees of corporation insufficient to establish publicity
• information disclosed to only five employees of corporation insufficient to establish publicity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Eddy v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1986-02-25· cited 131×
• Swinton Creek Nursery v. Edisto Farm Credit
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-03-01· cited 103×
• Pemberton v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-01-14· cited 70×
• Woodbury v. Victory Van Lines
  D. Maryland· 2017-12-21· cited 53×
• Lemnah v. American Breeders Service, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-06-29· cited 38×
• Werner v. Kliewer
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-12-06· cited 37×
• Ali v. Douglas Cable Communications
  D. Kansas· 1996-05-24· cited 33×
• Medical Laboratory Management Consultants v. American Broadcasting Companies
  D. Arizona· 1998-12-22· cited 28×
• International Union v. Garner
  M.D. Tennessee· 1985-01-28· cited 16×
• French v. American General Financial Services (In Re French)
  E.D. Tennessee· 2009-02-13· cited 16×
• Finley v. Kelly
  M.D. Tennessee· 2019-06-14· cited 16×
• Satterfield v. Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc.
  D. South Carolina· 1985-09-06· cited 15×
• Benford v. American Broadcasting Co., Inc.
  D. Maryland· 1986-05-14· cited 14×
• Bryant-Bruce v. Vanderbilt University, Inc.
  M.D. Tennessee· 1997-07-03· cited 13×
• Fields v. Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Co.
  D. Kansas· 1997-11-25· cited 13×
• Flynn v. Flynn
  N.D. Ohio· 1983-04-21· cited 12×
• William D. Evans v. James H. Detlefsen
  Sixth Circuit· 1988-09-15· cited 11×
• Citron v. Citron
  S.D. New York· 1982-06-01· cited 10×
• McQuade v. Michael Gassner Mechanical & Electrical Contractors, Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 1984-04-11· cited 9×
• Taylor v. Nationsbank N.A.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-09· cited 5×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Murdock
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 721×
• United States v. William Allan Jones
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-09-30· cited 157×
• Beverly Camp Simpson v. John G. Simpson, III
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-04-24· cited 126×
• Anonymous v. Anonymous
  Second Circuit· 1977-07-20· cited 89×
• Kratz v. Kratz
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1979-08-23· cited 75×
• Peggy Sue O'Neill and David O'neill, Individually and as Husband and Wife v. Vartkes Kiledjian
  Sixth Circuit· 1975-02-24· cited 70×
• Langford Ex Rel. Langford v. Vanderbilt University
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1956-02-03· cited 43×
• Birnbaum v. United States
  E.D. New York· 1977-08-17· cited 42×
• Martin v. Senators, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1967-07-03· cited 35×
• Rufus Lee Smith v. The Cincinnati Post & Times-Star
  Sixth Circuit· 1973-03-21· cited 32×
• Bernard H. Tureen v. Equifax, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1978-02-21· cited 21×
• Cordell v. Detective Publications, Inc.
  E.D. Tennessee· 1968-05-15· cited 15×