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In the case Jane Doe v. Uber a rape victim sues Uber for wrongly obtaining her medical records. Doe is suing Uber Technologies Inc. and three current and former executives. She’s currently claiming they breached her privacy by obtaining and publicizing her medical records. The plaintiff Jane Doe of Texas sued Uber after new information came up. Eric Alexander along with the CEO Travis Kalanick, and former senior vice president Emil Michael are the defendants in the litigation. This case is a false light tort, which is “a privacy tort that involves making a person seem in the public eye to be someone he or she is not. Several states do not allow false light suits”(Trager, et al. p. 260). Also “Courts in a few states disagree and allow …show more content…

Alexander publicized very intimate facts about the woman. Mr. Alexander invaded her privacy by obtaining and distributing her medical records. He believed she conspired with a competitor to to make up the story of her rape. These statements were wrong and are defamatory. In retrospect she should be compensated for the damages done. Douglas Wigdor the plaintiffs lawyer said, “Rape denial is just another form of the toxic gender discrimination that is endemic at Uber and ingrained in its culture,” (NewYorkTimes.com). Rape accusations shouldn’t be taken lightly. For Mr. Alexander and the others involved, to indicate the plaintiffs motives were to increase a rivals company with malicious lies were inaccurate and heinous. The crux in this case is the intrusion of private medical records from a sexual assault. The medical records were being passed around which in turn caused some speculation. The plaintiff Jane Doe was then being accused of falsifying her statement in the 2014 against the Uber driver who raped her. Stealing her medical records and trying to use them is a violation of Jane Doe’s fourth Amendment “unreasonable search and seizure” (Trager, et al.

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