Filed: Nov. 29, 2005
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Summary: F I L E D United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS November 29, 2005 FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Clerk of Court LEESA WITT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v No. 05-1098 (D.C. No. 04-MK-417 (BNB)) SMART DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS, (D. Colo.) LLC, a Georgia Limited Liability Company, Defendant-Appellee. ORDER AND JUDGMENT * Before KELLY, McKAY , and McCONNELL , Circuit Judges. After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined unanimously to grant the parties’ re
Summary: F I L E D United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS November 29, 2005 FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Clerk of Court LEESA WITT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v No. 05-1098 (D.C. No. 04-MK-417 (BNB)) SMART DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS, (D. Colo.) LLC, a Georgia Limited Liability Company, Defendant-Appellee. ORDER AND JUDGMENT * Before KELLY, McKAY , and McCONNELL , Circuit Judges. After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined unanimously to grant the parties’ req..
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F I L E D
United States Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
November 29, 2005
FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
Clerk of Court
LEESA WITT,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v No. 05-1098
(D.C. No. 04-MK-417 (BNB))
SMART DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS, (D. Colo.)
LLC, a Georgia Limited Liability
Company,
Defendant-Appellee.
ORDER AND JUDGMENT *
Before KELLY, McKAY , and McCONNELL , Circuit Judges.
After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined
unanimously to grant the parties’ request for a decision on the briefs without oral
argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(f); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is therefore
ordered submitted without oral argument.
*
This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the
doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. The court
generally disfavors the citation of orders and judgments; nevertheless, an order
and judgment may be cited under the terms and conditions of 10th Cir. R. 36.3.
Appellant Leesa Witt appeals the district court’s dismissal of her complaint
against Appellee Smart Document Solutions, LLC (SDS), for failure to state a
claim upon which relief could be granted. In her complaint, Ms. Witt alleged that
she executed a release form provided by her physician in order to obtain a copy of
all of her medical records. She designated her place of work as the address to
which the records should be mailed. She alleged that the release form was
transmitted to SDS, a company in the business of storing and distributing medical
records, and that SDS compiled her medical records, placed them in an
improperly addressed envelope, and mailed them to “an unknown or uncertain
recipient.” Aplt. App., at 3. She alleged that the records were “opened by and
read by persons to whom the records were not released” and that she later
“received her opened medical records in an unsealed, interoffice mailing
envelope.”
Id.
Ms. Witt asserted four claims for relief in her complaint: (1) unreasonable
disclosure of private facts; (2) intrusion upon seclusion; (3) breach of contract;
and (4) negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Id., at 3-6. SDS filed a motion
to dismiss under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), which the district court granted. This
appeal followed.
On appeal, we conduct a de novo review of a district court’s dismissal of a
complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Beedle v.
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Wilson ,
422 F.3d 1059, 1063 (10th Cir. 2005). We consider all well-pleaded
factual allegations in the complaint to be true and we view them in the light most
favorable to the nonmoving party.
Id. “The issue in reviewing the sufficiency of
a complaint is not whether the plaintiff will prevail, but whether the plaintiff is
entitled to offer evidence to support her claims.”
Id. (internal quotation marks
omitted). Pursuant to this standard, we have carefully reviewed the briefs, the
record, and the applicable law. Exercising our jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.
§ 1291, we AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal of the complaint for
substantially the reasons stated in that court’s order filed January 19, 2005.
Entered for the Court
Monroe G. McKay
Circuit Judge
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