Noble v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding no distinction between employee and independent contractor where store owner hires independent detective agency to protect its property
• finding no distinction between employee and independent contractor where store owner hires independent detective agency to protect its property
• reversing a lower court’s dismissal of a cause of action for “unreasonably intrusive investigation” in violation of the right to privacy where a private investigator obtained entrance into a hospital room by deception and then recorded a patient
• finding facts sufficient to state an intrusion upon 1 seclusion claim where an investigator hired by the defendant in a personal injury suit 2 gained admission to the plaintiff’s hospital room and, through deception, obtained 3 evidence
• reversing a lower court’s dismissal of a cause of action for “unreasonably intrusive investigation” in violation of the right to privacy where a private investigator obtained entrance into a hospital room by deception and then recorded a patient
• hirer of a detective agency for either a single investigation or for the protection of property may be liable for the intentional torts of employees of the private detective agency committed in the course of employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).