Jackson, H., Pet v. Seletyn

How courts have described this case

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• holding magazine may not use the First 16 Amendment as license to trespass by electronic means into another’s home
• recognizing the viability of a privacy tort under California law and that the First Amendment “is not a license . . . to intrude by electronic means into the precincts of another’s home or office”
• finding an invasion of privacy where the defendant gained entrance into another person’s home by subterfuge and then recorded him
• rejecting the argument that the First Amendment accorded journalists immunity from invasion of privacy torts
• “The First Amendment has never been construed to accord newsmen immunity from torts or crimes committed during the course of newsgathering.”
• “The First Amendment is not a license to trespass, to steal, or to intrude by electronic means into the precincts of another’s home or office.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).