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The court allowed plaintiff's disclosure of private facts claim to go forward (the Pennsylvania term for the tort is "publicity given to private life"): "To state a claim for publicity given to private life, a plaintiff must allege that the matter publicized is '(1) publicity, given to (2) private facts, (3) which would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (4) is not of legitimate concern to the public.'" … "A private fact is one that has not already been made public." A fact is made public "by communicating it to the public at large, or to so many persons that the matter must be regarded as substantially certain to become one of public knowledge." However, "disclosures to a small number of persons do not" make a fact public…. In 2024, Jeanine Staples-Dixon, a tenured professor at Penn State, published a book that disclosed Plaintiff's childhood sexual abuse….
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