Netflix Exits Invasion Of Privacy Lawsuit Over Creepy ‘Our Father’ Fertility Doc Mostly Unscathed

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Facing a potential payout in the tens of millions at the very least from an invasion of privacy lawsuit over some sloppy editing on a 2022 Blumhouse documentary about a sociopathic fertility doctor, Netflix has emerged having to write a relatively small check thanks to a Midwest jury.

Having already seen one plaintiff removed from the Indianapolis Indiana based Our Father case because of podcast oversharing, remaining plaintiffs Lori Kennard and Sarah Bowling received very different verdicts late on December 5. “Judgment is entered against Plaintiff Sarah Bowling and in favor of Defendants on Count One invasion of privacy by public disclosure of private facts of Plaintiff Sarah Bowling’s Complaint,” declares an order Friday from US District Court Judge Tanya Walton Platt.

Judgment is entered against Defendants and in favor of Plaintiff Lori Kennard in the amount of $385,000.00. Judgment is entered accordingly, and this action is TERMINATED.” Originally seeking $1 for every one of the around 18 million subscribers to the streamer who watched the Lucie Jourdan directed Our Father over the two weeks after its very successful May 11, 2022 launch, Kennard and Bowling’s names appeared for on-screen for just over the blink of an eye on-screen.

The women were identified in the film as two of the nearly 100 children that were born from convicted felon Dr. Donald Cline injecting his own sperm into unsuspecting or duped female fertility patients between 1974 and 1987.