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SHULMAN v. GROUP W PRODUCTIONS, INC.

No. S058629.

74 Cal.Rptr.2d 843 (1998)

955 P.2d 469

18 Cal.4th 200

Ruth SHULMAN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. GROUP W PRODUCTIONS, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing July 29, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Rowell, Glendale, Lewis, Goldberg & Ball, Michael L. Goldberg, Mc Lean, Va., Paul & Stuart, Stuart Law Firm, Antony Stuart, Los Angeles, and William A. Daniels, Santa Monica, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Cornell Chulay, Los Angeles, Epstein, Becker & Green, Janet Morgan, Terry M. Gordon, Richard A. Hoyer, San Francisco, Tharpe & Howell, Donald F. Austin, Ventura, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager, Karen N. Fredericksen and Frederick F. Mumm, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents.

James E. Grossberg, Washington DC, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Neville L. Johnson, Los Angeles, and David A. Elder as Amici Curiae.

WERDEGAR, Justice.

More than 100 years ago, Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren complained that the press, armed with the then recent invention of "instantaneous photographs" and under the influence of new "business methods," was "overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency." (Warren & Brandeis, The Right to Privacy (1890) 4 Harv. L.Rev. 193, 195-196 (hereafter Brandeis).) Even more ominously, they noted the "numerous mechanical...

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