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· 9/2/1982

Montana Human Rights Division v. City of Billings

Citations

  • 649 P.2d 1283
  • 199 Mont. 434

How courts have described this case

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  • balancing right to privacy with state constitutional right to equal protection and related state interest in enforcing Montana Human Rights Act
  • holding, while information contained in certain private records may already be a matter of general knowledge, the records may still contain \damaging information which the individuals involved would not wish and in fact did not expect to be disclosed\
  • balancing ** right to privacy with state constitutional right to equal protection and related state interest in enforcing Montana Human Rights Act
  • adopting threshold Fourth Amendment “search” criteria from Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 357, 88 S. Ct. 421, 542 (1967)7 as the threshold privacy test under Article II, Section 10

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Judges: Weber, Haswell, Harrison, Daly, Shea, Morrison, Sheehy

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