Ramnath v. Wang

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming district court’s order refusing to allow civil rights plaintiff to proceed anonymously where the plaintiff merely asserted “potential embarrassment based on vague and speculative suggestions of mental illness”
• denying a motion to proceed anonymously where plaintiff gave no further basis for his request beyond “harmful and prejudicial information might be made public and might harm his reputation”
• alleging “BYU police and security officers at various times stopped and questioned him, and that BYU . . . invaded his privacy and defamed him by making unflattering statements about him”
• “He did not present any particularized evidence, however, relating to any mental or psychiatric history, nor any particularized reasons why proceeding publicly would cause him real psychological or physical injury.”
• “The risk that a plaintiff may suffer some embarrassment is insufficient to permit anonymity.”
• “The risk that a plaintiff may suffer some embarrassment is insufficient to permit anonymity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).