Legal Opinion
Wojtowicz v. Delacorte Press
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 7, 1978PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
The factual setting of this litigation is described in the opinion at the Appellate Division. For present purposes the allegations and assertions on which plaintiffs predicate their claims for invasion of privacy must be viewed in the light *860most favorable to them. In that perspective it appears that in the publication of two books and a movie (which do not purport to be historical or documentary accounts of newsworthy interest but which are nonetheless represented as true and accurate stories),…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Nader v. General Motors Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1970
- Flores v. Mosler Safe Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1959
3Cited by43 opinions
- Cohen v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1978
- Arrington v. New York Times Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1982
- Norman Birnbaum, B. Leonard Avery and Mary Rule MacMillen Plaintiffs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Dorothy Ruth Pirone, Julia Ruth Stevens, Babe Ruth League, Incorporated and Curtis Management Group, Incorporated v. MacMillan IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- MacDonald v. ClingerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
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