WOJTOWICZ v. DELACORTE PRESS


43 N.Y.2d 858 (1978)

Carmen Wojtowicz, Individually and as Mother and Natural Guardian of Dawn M. Wojtowicz and Another, Infants, Appellant, v. Delacorte Press et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. O'Donnell for appellant.

Robert Bryant Hunting, Jeremy Nusbaum and Richard Paul Newman for Delacorte Press and another, respondents.

Eugene L. Girden, Carleton G. Eldridge, Jr., and Pamela G. Ostrager for Warner Bros., Inc., and another, respondents.

Irwin Karp for Authors League of America, Inc., amicus curiae.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur in memorandum.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

The factual setting of this litigation is described in the opinion at the Appellate Division. For present purposes the allegations and assertions on which plaintiffs predicate their claims for invasion of privacy must be viewed in the light most favorable to them. In that perspective it appears...

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