Legal Opinion
Scott Dahlstrom v. Sun-Times Media, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 6, 2015No. 14-2295PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
The Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (“DPPA”), 18 U.S.C. § 2721 et seq., prohibits individuals from knowingly obtaining or disclosing “personal information” from a motor vehicle record. In this interlocutory appeal, five Chicago police officers brought suit against Sun-Times Media, alleging that the publishing company violated the DPPA by obtaining each officer’s birth date, height, weight, hair color, and eye color from -the Illinois Secretary of State’s motor vehicle records, and publishing that information in a newspaper article that criticized a homicide investigation…
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