Legal Opinion
Lawrence v. A.S. Abell Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 31, 1984No. 164, September Term, 1982PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLE, Judge.
The issue presented in this case is whether the right of privacy of two children and their mothers was invaded when a newspaper republished, for its own advertising campaign, a portion of an edition in which the children’s photograph appeared. The facts are not in dispute.
On July 29, 1979, two infants, Zantia Lawrence and Kermit Fowlkes, Jr., were taken by Fowlkes’ mother to an Afram Festival in downtown Baltimore. While there, Jed Kirschbaum, a photographer for the Sunpapers, requested permission to photograph the children for an article about the festival. Mrs. Fowlkes…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Billings v. AtkinsonTexas Supreme Court · 1973
- Afro-American Publishing Co., Inc. v. Eli Jaffe, T/a Douglas PharmacyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
- Flake Ex Rel. Flake v. Greensboro News Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1938
- Reed v. Real Detective Publishing Co.Arizona Supreme Court · 1945
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