· 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
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- 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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