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No Pseudonymity for Autistic Ex-Judge-Candidate, Alleging Failure to Accommodate Disability in Bar Investigation
['Eugene Volokh', 'Reem Ibrahim', 'Autumn Billings', 'Jason Russell', 'Liz Wolfe', 'Charles Oliver']
Reason.com
Courts have consistently recognized medical and psychological information as information of the utmost intimacy supporting pseudonymity….
Plaintiff anticipates that Defendants may argue that Plaintiff waived any privacy interest in this information because Plaintiff voluntarily referenced his autism in a campaign social media post explaining his candidacy.
Disclosure in one limited context does not waive a privacy interest against disclosure in a different context to a different audience for a different purpose.
The court was unpersuaded:Plaintiff's interest in privacy does not outweigh the presumption of openness at this stage of the litigation.
For more on Doe's arguments about the alleged failure to accommodate, see his TRO motion.