Cities Service Oil Co. v. Celanese Corp. of America

How courts have described this case

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• observing how, in some cases, “the injury litigated against would occur as a result of the disclosure of plaintiffs identity”
• rejecting plaintiff’s request to proceed anonymously despite accepting as true her allegation that “she would suffer intense embarrassment and shame within her community” if her name were disclosed
• granting use of pseudonym in light of “persuasive, substantive evidence demonstrating ‘a compelling need for privacy ... [that] outweighs the rights-of the defendants and the public to open proceedings’ .”
• plaintiff could not proceed anonymously in Title VII and state law action for sexual harassment
• plaintiff who feared she might be HIV-infected not permitted to proceed under pseudonym in sexual harassment case
• “Economic harm or mere embarrassment are not sufficient to override the strong public interest in disclosure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).