Already have an account? Sign in instead.
You stay signed in for 30 days on this browser.
Continue with Google Continue with MicrosoftNo account yet? Create a free one.
We sent a six-digit code.
It expires in ten minutes, works once, and only in this browser. Five wrong tries void it. Send another code.
Your account is live and the Cloudflare checks are off for this browser.
7 Massachusetts opinions name it 3 courts 1975–2019 0 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Massachusetts courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
|---|---|---|
Lima v. Limagreen1 sentence2012See Lima v. Lima, 30 Mass. App. Ct. 479, 485 (1991). | 1 | 1 |
Frick v. Boydgreen1 sentence1999Ct. Nov. 4. 1994) (no unreasonable or serious interference with privacy rights where defendants listed his “depressed mental state" as the reason for his leave request submitted to Personnel Administration); Frick v. Boyd, 350 Mass. 259, 264 (1966) (no common law right to privacy where unauthorized publication of facts did not rise to the level of “substantial, serious, or indecent intrusion into her personal life”). | 1 | 1 |
United States v. Whitegreen1 sentence1997Accordingly, I believe that the defendant’s privacy claim is governed by the well-settled proposition developed under Fourth Amendment jurisprudence that “listening in to a telephone conversation on an extension, with the consent of one party, does not violate the rights of the other party . . . .” United States v. Miller, 720 F.2d at 228 , citing United States v. White, 401 U.S. 745, 753 (1971). | 1 | 1 |
Petitions of the Department of Social Services to Dispense With Consent to Adoptiongreen1 sentence1993See Adoption of Diane, 400 Mass. 196, 202 (1987) (privilege belongs to patient who has the burden of asserting the privilege; in care *409 and protection proceeding it would be anomalous to permit the parent to assert privilege); Petitions of the Dep’t of Social Servs. to Dispense with Consent to Adoption, 399 Mass. 279, 286-287 (1987) (parent’s hospital records are admissible under G. | 1 | 1 |
Adoption of Dianegreen1 sentence1993See Adoption of Diane, 400 Mass. 196, 202 (1987) (privilege belongs to patient who has the burden of asserting the privilege; in care *409 and protection proceeding it would be anomalous to permit the parent to assert privilege); Petitions of the Dep’t of Social Servs. to Dispense with Consent to Adoption, 399 Mass. 279, 286-287 (1987) (parent’s hospital records are admissible under G. | 1 | 1 |
Broderick v. Police Commissioner of Bostongreen1 sentence1979Cf. Broderick v. Police Commr. of Boston, 368 Mass. 33, 44 (1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1048 (1976) (a privacy claim under G. | 1 | 1 |
D. Franklin Wishart, and v. Paul J. McDonald Andgreen1 sentence1975L. c. 214, § IB, 5 we simply state, as did the United States Court of Appeals in Wishart v. McDonald, 500 F. 2d 1110, 1113-1114 (1st Cir. 1974), “The right of privacy, even as advocated in Warren & Brandéis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv. | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
|---|---|---|
| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Massachusetts. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
|---|---|---|
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. v. Department of Agricultural Resources
green
2 sentences2019This is especially so because the risk of identity theft may factor into the privacy analysis only if DPH "can identify specific information demonstrating that a significant risk [of such theft] ... is posed by the disclosure." PETA , 477 Mass. at 295 , 76 N.E.3d 227 (discussing "significant risk to an individual's personal safety"). 2019This is especially so because the risk of identity theft may factor into the privacy analysis only if DPH "can identify specific information demonstrating that a significant risk [of such theft] ... is posed by the disclosure." PETA , 477 Mass. at 295 , 76 N.E.3d 227 (discussing "significant risk to an individual's personal safety"). | 1 | 2019–2019 |
United States v. Stephen Miller
green
1 sentence1997Accordingly, I believe that the defendant’s privacy claim is governed by the well-settled proposition developed under Fourth Amendment jurisprudence that “listening in to a telephone conversation on an extension, with the consent of one party, does not violate the rights of the other party . . . .” United States v. Miller, 720 F.2d at 228 , citing United States v. White, 401 U.S. 745, 753 (1971). | 1 | 1997–1997 |
Broderick v. DiGrazia
green
1 sentence1979Cf. Broderick v. Police Commr. of Boston, 368 Mass. 33, 44 (1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1048 (1976) (a privacy claim under G. | 1 | 1979–1979 |
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.