· 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
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- 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’
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Judges: Judge Reggie B. Walton
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