Legal Opinion
Marsh v. County of San Diego
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 29, 2012No. 11-55395PublishedCited by 578 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:
When tragedy strikes and a family member suffers a violent death, we try to remember our dearly departed as they were in life, not as they were at the end. But suppressing gruesome mental images of their demise becomes difficult when autopsy or crime scene photographs are published for the world to see. We consider whether individuals have a federal privacy right to control public dissemination of a family member’s death images.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
In 1983, Brenda Marsh’s two-year-old son, Phillip Buell, died from a severe head injury while in the care of her…
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