Lamy v. New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission

In Lamy v. New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, 152 N.H. 106, 108, 872 A.2d 1006 (2005), the petitioner sought the names and address of customers of a public utility, 152 N.H. at 108. The New Hampshire Supreme Court held that the private customers of the utility had a privacy interest in their names and addresses. Id. at 110. The Lamy Court concluded that the privacy interest was founded on the "ability to retreat to the seclusion of one's home and to avoid enforced disclosure of one's name and address." Id. In addition, the Court noted that the privacy interest existed to avoid "the influx of unwanted, unsolicited mail or the telephone calls and visits to the customers that could follow from disclosure of their names and home addresses." Id.