Qualls v. Rumsfeld

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• opining that neither the scrutiny and criticism that can alter the way a plaintiff is viewed by coworkers and friends nor “unsubstantiated fears of retaliatory actions by higher-ups” justify pseudonymity
• approving protective order covering personal financial 9 information, juvenile court records, and other private information
• “None of the evidence demonstrates that Doe plaintiffs are likely to face physical retaliation as a result of filing this lawsuit; therefore, they cannot proceed under pseudonyms.”
• “Doe plaintiffs’ general fears, like the declarations, do not persuade the Court of a need for pseudonymous litigation.”
• “fears of embarrassment or vague, unsubstantiated fears of retaliatory actions . . . do not permit a plaintiff to proceed under a pseudonym”
• “None of the evidence demonstrates that Doe plaintiffs are likely to face physical retaliation as a result of filing this lawsuit; therefore, they cannot proceed under pseudonyms.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Doe v. Cabrera
  District of Columbia· 2014-09-10· cited 57×
• Doe v. Pittsylvania County
  W.D. Virginia· 2012-02-03· cited 39×
• Doe v. George Wash. Univ.
  D.C. Circuit· 2019-03-27· cited 30×
• National Ass'n of Waterfront Employers v. Chao
  District of Columbia· 2008-11-13· cited 28×
• Klayman v. Obama
  District of Columbia· 2015-08-21· cited 26×
• Roe v. Bernabei & Wachtel Pllc
  District of Columbia· 2015-03-26· cited 25×
• United States of America Ex Rel Sanjay Grover v. Related Companies, L.P.
  District of Columbia· 2013-11-14· cited 15×
• Sandberg v. Vincent
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-08-09· cited 8×
• Smith v. Summers
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-09-24· cited 7×
• Roe v. Doe
  District of Columbia· 2018-08-09
• Sandberg v. Vincent
  District of Columbia· 2019-04-23
• Tolton v. Jones Day
  District of Columbia· 2019-09-11
• Valle v. Karagounis
  District of Columbia· 2020-07-16
• Federal Trade Commission v. Match Group, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2023-05-01
• John Doe v. Jane Doe
  Fourth Circuit· 2023-10-26
• Doe v. Trustees of Dartmouth College
  D. New Hampshire· 2018-05-02

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• John James Mary James v. Cecil B. Jacobson, Jr., M.D. Reproductive Genetics Center, Limited
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-10-04· cited 455×
• Bill W. Doe v. Anthony M. Frank, Postmaster General of the United States of America
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-01-24· cited 385×
• Doe v. Stegall
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-08-10· cited 298×
• Unnamed case
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-07-30· cited 163×
• Cowley v. Pulsifer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1884-06-27· cited 163×
• John Doe v. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services
  D.C. Circuit· 1991-07-16· cited 48×
• Qualls v. Rumsfeld
  District of Columbia· 2005-02-07· cited 42×
• Does I Through III v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2003-06-18· cited 10×