United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for Morgan Stanley on state law claims based on its alleged violation of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) is affirmed where such claims failed as there was no violation of the GLBA because: 1) plaintiff's financial information lost its nonpublic character when he filed a reparations complaint disclosing his financial information to a third party; and 2) delivery of a demand letter to plaintiff's wife, currently in divorce proceedings, was an appropriate and acceptable method of settling or collecting a debt defendant believed plaintiff owed, and was a valid exception under the GLBA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2007
• Published 02/05/2007

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, HANSEN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kathleen A. Hardee, argued, Kansas City, MO (Richard M. Paul, III, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• W. Perry Brandt, argued, Kansas City, MO (Julie Westcott, Kansas City, on the brief), for appellee.