Michael S. Virgil, AKA Mike Virgil v. Time, Inc., a New York Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing cause of action for invasion of privacy where information published was true but not of legitimate public concern
• “[A]ceepting that it is, as matter of law, in the public interest to know about some area of activity, it does not necessarily follow that it is in the public interest to know private facts about the persons who engage in that activity.”
• endorsing these terms “as illustrative of the degree of offensiveness which should be present”
• whether private facts unrelated to the sport were of legitimate public interest in relation to an article on surfing was a question of fact
• no publicity if information is disclosed to a nonpublic audience, unless the disclosure is accompanied by “consent to publicize”
• general subject of body surfing in article was newsworthy, but factual question existed as to whether “bizarre” and unrelated facts disclosed about plaintiff were newsworthy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).