Doe v. Indiana Black Expo, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that courts have permitted proceeding under a fictitious name in exceptional cases “where the party has a privacy right so substantial as to outweigh the ‘customary and constitutionally-embedded presumption of openness in judicial proceedings’ ”
• noting “the unusual practice” of proceeding anonymously “is seen most often in litigation against a governmental officer or entity”
• “As courts have recognized, the mere filing of a lawsuit can have significant effects on a defendant.”
• applying nearly identical five-factor test
• applying nearly identical five-factor test
• applying nearly identical five-factor test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).