Montesano v. Donrey Media Group

*646OPINION

By the Court,

Manoukian, C. J.:1

This appeal concerns the claimed tortious public disclosure of private facts. Appellant contends that the actionable wrong resulted from the respondents’ publication of his involvement in a hit-and-run accident twenty years earlier in which a police officer was killed. Respondents argue that because the news article was drawn from public records and because appellant’s misdeeds were directly related to a subject of current public interest, the hit-and-run accident which occurred twenty years earlier was “newsworthy” at the time of publication. Being…