Bodah v. Lakeville Motor Express, Inc.

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• stating that a district court’s decision that a claim is legally insufficient to grant relief is subject to de novo review
• stating that, when reviewing a rule 12.02(e) claim, appellate courts consider “only the facts alleged in the complaint”
• explaining that a publication of private facts requires that “the matter is made public, by communicating it to the public at large, or to so many persons that the matter must be regarded as substantially certain to become one of public knowledge.”
• reviewing dismissal 1 Appellant separately claimed that respondent unlawfully withheld appellant’s personnel record after he had requested it, in violation of Minn. Stat. § 181.961 (2014
• adopting the Restatement definition of publicity which explains that the distinction is “between private and public communication,” and that the publicity element is satisfied when information is “dissemi-nat[ed] to the public at large”
• social security numbers are broadly recognized as confidential and private, but “are not on their face revealing, compromisingC ] or embarrassing”

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