Nappier v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Their right of privacy was violated, 'Patricia Nappier and Maxine Gunter charged in separate complaints, by the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company and by its subsidiary the Jefferson .Standard Broadcasting Company when the latter published through television the fact of their rape. On motion the District Court dismissed the complaints. In this it denied the plaintiffs’ contention that in South Carolina, where the television was projected, a cause of action was assured them both by the following statutory provision and by the common .law:

“Misdemeanor to…