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· 7/23/1990

Miller v. Motorola, Inc.

Citations

  • 560 N.E.2d 900
  • 202 Ill. App. 3d 976
  • 148 Ill. Dec. 303
  • 5 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 885
  • 1990 Ill. App. LEXIS 1070

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the plaintiff stated a claim for public disclosure of private facts where her employer “disclos[ed] … her mastectomy surgery to [her] co-employees”
  • concluding that the defendant did not commit an unauthorized intrusion into the seclusion of the plaintiff by disclosing medical information that the plaintiff had voluntarily provided to the defendant
  • holding that an invasion of a right to privacy does not equate to publication
  • holding that a plaintiff’s relationship to other employees qualified for the exception
  • explaining that general rule for purposes of public-disclosure claim is that “the required communication must be more than that made to a small group; rather, the communication must be made to the public at large”
  • outlining the elements of a claim for public disclosure of private facts

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Judges: Buckley

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