Ex-UC Berkeley Professor’s Invasion of Privacy Claims Revived

An ex-University of California, Berkeley professor’s claims that the school violated his privacy rights by leaking student complaints of his sexual misconduct to the media and sharing that he took medical accommodations at a faculty meeting were revived by a state appeals court.

Information doesn’t need to be confidential to be protected under California’s right to privacy, Justice Tracie L. Brown of California’s Court of Appeal, First District wrote in a published Monday ruling.

“If the audience for a disclosure already knows information about an individual, disclosure of it by an agency might not have an adverse effect on ...