Bisbee v. John C. Conover Agency

How courts have described this case

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• looking to the Restatement (Second) of Torts for the “four areas of invasion of privacy,” including “appropriation of the other‟s name or likeness”
• granting summary judgment on misappropriation of likeness claim on basis that publication had news and historical value
• holding a newspaper's publishing of a photograph of the plaintiff's house \taken from the street\ that \merely represented a view which [wa]s available to any bystander\ did not constitute an intrusion that would be highly offensive to a reasonable person
• noting in part a plaintiff has no claim for invasion of privacy \where plaintiff's activities are already public or known\
• “This tort form of invasion of privacy is analagous [sic] to defamation, in that the statement which gives rise to the cause of action must be untrue”
• intrusion, false light privacy, public disclosure of private facts, appropriation of name or likeness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).