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· 6/24/1980

Kinsey v. MacUr

Citations

  • 107 Cal. App. 3d 265
  • 165 Cal. Rptr. 608
  • 1980 Cal. App. LEXIS 1964

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that defendant’s dissemination of copies of a letter to only twenty people constituted public disclosure
  • finding public disclosure where defendant maliciously sent letters to a geographically, socially, and professionally diverse group of roughly twenty people
  • letters regarding defendant’s behavior, some of which contained personal facts, stated a cause of action for tortious invasions of constitutional right to privacy
  • letters regarding defendant's behavior, some of which contained personal facts, stated a cause of action for tortious invasions of constitutional right to privacy
  • allegation that private individual disclosed embarrassing personal facts about the plaintiff states a cause of action under Article I, § 1 for invasion of privacy
  • except in cases involving physical intrusion, the common law invasion of privacy tort “must be accompanied by publicity in the sense of communication to the public in general or to a large number of persons as distinguished from one individual or a few”

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Judges: Miller

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