RINSLEY v. BRANDT

No. 80-1623.

700 F.2d 1304 (1983)

Donald B. RINSLEY, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Anthony BRANDT and William Morrow and Company, Inc., a corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon B. Graves, Topeka, Kan., for plaintiff-appellant.

Sam L. Colville, Kansas City, Mo. (Richard L. Sandler of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., and Grant M. Glenn of Cosgrove, Webb & Oman, Topeka, Kan., with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee Anthony Brandt.

Donald Patterson of Fisher, Patterson, Sayler & Smith, Topeka, Kan., for defendant-appellee William Morrow and Co., Inc.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.


LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Donald B. Rinsley, M.D., appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendants Anthony Brandt and William Morrow and Company, Inc. in this diversity case. In granting summary judgment, the district court rejected Rinsley's claim that publication of Brandt's book, Reality Police: The Experience of Insanity in America (1975), constituted an invasion of Rinsley's privacy because certain statements in the book placed him...

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