Doe v. Mills

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “it is initially for the court to determine whether the defendant’s conduct reasonably may be regarded as so extreme and outrageous as to permit recovery”
• defining “extreme and outrageous conduct” as conduct which “go[es] beyond all possible bounds of decency,” and is “atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community”
• publicizing plaintiffs’ names and the fact of their abortions on large signs held up outside clinic entrance
• involving protestors’ display of signs informing public about specific women’s intentions to undergo abortions
• “An action for intrusion upon seclusion focuses on the manner in which information is obtained, not its publication; it is considered analogous to a trespass.”
• in analyzing claims of invasion of privacy, Michigan courts generally have embraced the provisions of the. Restatement of Torts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).