Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 13, 1974No. Civ. 43527PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
STEPHENS, Acting P. J.,
This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining defendant’s demurrer without leave to amend plaintiffs’ complaint. Plaintiffs (Douglas William Johnson and other members of his family, Helen, Richard, Clement, and Dorance) 1 filed suit on December 29, 1972, against defendants (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. (publishers) and William F. Smith and Raymond Liedlich (authors of the textbook), alleging that defendants had invaded their right of privacy by republication of an article from The Nation magazine in a college English textbook published in 1965. The authors…
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