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A judge has denied an aspiring model's request to keep her identity hidden in her sexual battery suit against basketball star Jason Kidd. The woman's desire to avoid "embarrassment" is a "plainly insufficient" ground for invoking New York Civil Rights Law 50-b, the judge held. Using fictitious names "runs afoul" of the public's right of access to judicial proceedings, and anonymity should be restricted to situations where a plaintiff faces a "risk of retaliatory physical or mental harm," the judge said.