Tobin v. Civil Service Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing protection against “Appropriation, for the defendant’s advantage, of the plaintiffs name or likeness”
• mailing of unsolicited messages not amounting to harassment is not actionable
• “Names and addresses are not ordinarily personal, intimate, or embarrassing pieces of information”
• FOIA does not prohibit disclosure of names and addresses of classified civil service employees to public employee labor organizations
• “Names and addresses are not ordinarily personal, intimate, or embarrassing pieces of information”
• “Names and addresses are not ordinarily personal, intimate, or embarrassing pieces of information. . . . No other jurisdiction has ever recognized a cause of action based on the release of an individual’s name and address, without more.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).