LYNCH

v.

SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Citator

Cited By

• Zelma Cason v. Baskin, 159 Fla. 31 (Fla. 1947)
  …fairs and his character, may be said to have become a public personage, and he thereby relinquishes or loses at least a part of his right of privacy. William James Sidis v. F. R. Publishing Corporation, 113 Fed. 2d 806; writ of certiorari denied in 311 U.S. 711, 85 L. Ed. 462, 61 S.Ct. 393, 138 A.L.R. 15, and Annotations, p. 58; 41 Am. Jur. 937, par. 18. The authorities hold that the following, in part, fall within the above rule: (a) Candidates for office; (b) high officials of a State or Federal Governm…

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• "Jane DOE v. Sarasota-Bradenton Fla. Television Co., Inc., 436 So. 2d 328 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983)
  …419 (1974): [Djespite vigorous efforts to avoid publicity, some people remain newsworthy because of circumstances which arouse a legitimate interest in their lives. In Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corporation, 113 F. 2d 806 (2d Cir.1940), cert. denied, 311 U.S. 711, 61 S.Ct. 393, 85 L.Ed. 462 (1941), this was held to be true in the case of a child prodigy who had made every effort for 25 years to avoid publicity and for whom the results of later publicity were disastrous. The judgment of what is newsworthy mus…
• Meeropol v. Nizer, 560 F.2d 1061 (2d Cir. 1977)
  …ubject to suits under § 51 since they are viewed as legitimate dissemination of information on subjects of general interest. Koussevitzky, supra, 188 Misc. 479, 68 N.Y.S.2d 783-84; Sidis v. F-R Pub. Corp., 113 F. 2d 806, 809 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 311 U.S. 711, 61 S.Ct. 393, 85 L.Ed. 462 (1940). Sidis involved a claim for invasion of privacy by a former child prodigy who had subsequently cloaked himself in obscurity. Although this court found that an account in the New Yorker about plaintiff was “mercil…