Biederman's of Springfield, Inc. v. Wright

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• holding that debt collection practices through third parties meet the require- ments of the public disclosure of private facts when they are “unreasonable and oppressive,” that is, “degrading and embarrassing,” not simply when debt is being collected
• stating that “the pub- lic . . . could have[] no legitimate interest” in “the status of [a] debt owed”
• publicity require ment satisfied where a creditor, on three separate occasions, loudly demanded payment on an account in a public restaurant
• publicity requirement satisfied where a creditor, on three separate occasions, loudly demanded payment on an account in a public restaurant
• “The oral publication of a private matter with which the public has no proper concern may be just as devastating and damaging as a written communication.”
• public disclosure of private facts and intrusion upon seclusion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).