Netflix Gets Mixed Verdict in Invasion of Privacy Trial Over ‘Our Father’ Documentary

An Indiana jury has found in favor of a woman who sued Netflix for revealing her identity in a 2022 documentary about a doctor who secretly fathered dozens of children through fraudulent fertility treatments.

Lori Kennard was awarded $385,000 for invasion of privacy related to the momentary disclosure of her name in Our Father. But in a split verdict delivered on Thursday evening, the jury sided with Netflix and against Sarah Bowling, another woman who sued under the same claim but was found to have disclosed her relationship as the doctor’s daughter.

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The documentary, released in 2022, explores former Indianapolis-based fertility doctor Donald Cline, who used his sperm 1970s and 80s to impregnate dozens of patients without their knowledge. The women were told that the donors he used were medical residents and that he used each donor for only three successful

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