Wolfe v. Schaefer

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 Constitution protects the “right to the privacy of medical, sexual, financial, and perhaps other categories of highly personal information … defeasible only upon proof of a strong public interest in access to or dissemination of the information”
• stating that “unreasonable publicity given to another’s private life” is “illustrated by,” for example, “the unauthorized publicizing of a person’s medical condition” or his “personal finances”
• stating that “unrea- sonable publicity given to another’s private life” is “illustrated by,” for exam- ple, “the unauthorized publicizing of a person’s medical condition” or his “per- sonal finances”
• referring to the “right to the privacy of medical, sexual, financial, and perhaps other categories of highly personal information”
• affirming dismissal of Fourteenth Amendment claim premised on the disclosure of matter of substantial public interest
• this right to privacy is \defeasible only upon proof of a strong public interest in access to or dissemination of the information\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).