Dan Solove writes: I recently posted on SSRN a draft of my forthcoming article (with Professor Neil M. Richards of Washington University School of Law). The piece is called Prosser’s Privacy Law: A Mixed Legacy, 98 California Law Review __ (forthcoming 2010). It was written as part of a symposium “Prosser’s Privacy at 50.” Read…
Category: Court
Classmates.com settles suit over misleading e-mails
John Timmer writes: In 2008, the social networking site Classmates.com found itself on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit that focused on its membership recruitment tactics. The company has now settled the suit via the typical mechanism: trivial discounts to the affected parties, and some hefty legal fees. But, as part of the…
Spouses have bathroom privacy rights, Minnesota appeals court says
Emily Gurnon reports: The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a spouse has a “reasonable expectation of privacy” when alone in her home bathroom. “A spouse does not lose all claims to privacy through previously sharing some intimate information, activity or viewing with the other spouse,” Judge Doris Ohlsen Huspeni wrote for a three-judge…
Crime scene photos request sparks privacy debate
Bill Rankin reports: In 1990, five families lost their children, all college students in Gainesville, Fla., to a serial killer who grotesquely mutilated his victims. In 1994 a new outrage confronted those same families: Florida media outlets filed for access, under the state’s public disclosure law, to crime-scene photos that were beyond horrific. The families…