Trannel v. Prairie Ridge Media, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the IRPA prohibits the “representation” of a person’s identity in connection with “an offering for the sale of a product, merchandise, goods, or services”
• holding that a defendant’s “holding out” for a commercial purpose means representing a plaintiff’s identity in connection with the sale of a product, merchandise, goods, or services, without demonstrating publication to a third party as a required element
• noting that in context of the IRPA “the word ‘public’ is unambiguous and means the ‘aggregate of the citizens’ or ‘everybody’ or the ‘people at large’ or the community at large”
• “[T]he [IRPA] prohibits the holding out—meaning the representation—of an individual’s identity on or in connection with certain activities.”
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Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).