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· 9/10/2014

Doe v. Cabrera

Citations

  • 307 F.R.D. 1
  • 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 126236
  • 2014 WL 4656610

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding 27-year-old victim of sexual assault would be allowed to proceed anonymously in suit against alleged attacker, but only through pretrial proceedings
  • collecting cases containing allegations of sexual assault in which the plaintiffs were allowed to proceed under a pseudonym
  • granting the plaintiff rape victim’s motion for pseudonymous filing because public disclosure could subject the plaintiff to “psychological trauma”
  • “Having the plaintiff’s name in the public domain, especially in the Internet age, could subject the plaintiff to future unnecessary interrogation . . . as a result of bringing this case.”
  • collecting cases in which a sexual assault victims were permitted to proceed anonymously
  • granting use of pseudonym during preliminary stages of litigation but observing- that allowing the use of a pseudonym during trial would serve “as' a subliminal comment on the harm the alleged éncounter .'.. has caused the plaintiff’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judge Reggie B. Walton

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