LAWRENCE v. A.S. ABELL CO.

No. 164, September Term, 1982.

299 Md. 697 (1984)

475 A.2d 448

ZANTIA LAWRENCE ET AL. v. THE A.S. ABELL COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 31, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen N. Goldberg, Baltimore (Rebecca A. Bryant, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellants.

Abbe David Lowell, Washington, D.C. (Douglas D. Connah, Jr. and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

The issue presented in this case is whether the right of privacy of two children and their mothers was invaded when a newspaper republished, for its own advertising campaign, a portion of an edition in which the children's photograph appeared. The facts are not in dispute.

On July 29, 1979, two infants, Zantia Lawrence and Kermit Fowlkes, Jr., were taken by Fowlkes' mother to an Afram Festival in downtown Baltimore. While there, Jed Kirschbaum...

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