Reynolds v. Reynolds

OPINION

Chief Judge DIANE M. JOHNSEN authored the opinion of the Court, in which Acting Presiding Judge PATRICIA K. NORRIS and Judge MAURICE PORTLEY joined. JOHNSEN, Judge.

¶ 1 Robin Reynolds wrote two online commentaries about her mother Lois, one describing her own reaction to her elderly mother’s diminished quality of life, and the other, a fond Mother’s Day remembrance after her mother had died. Robin’s sister, Sylvia, personal representative of their mother’s estate, objected to Robin’s writings and listed a claim against Robin for violation of Lois’s right of publicity on her inventory of…