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NAPPIER v. JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 8946.

322 F.2d 502 (1963)

Patricia A. NAPPIER and S. Maxine Gunter, Appellants, v. JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yancey A. McLeod and Harry M. Lightsey, Jr., Columbia, S. C. (McLeod & Singletary, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellants.

Robert H. Koonts, Greensboro, N. C., and P. H. McEachin, Florence, S. C. (McEachin, Townsend & Zeigler, Florence, S. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Their right of privacy was violated, Patricia Nappier and Maxine Gunter charged in separate complaints, by the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company and by its subsidiary the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company when the latter published through television the fact of their rape. On motion the District Court dismissed the complaints. In this it denied the plaintiffs' contention that in South Carolina, where the television was...

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