Susie HALL
v.
Rose POST and The Post Publishing Company, Inc., d/b/a The Salisbury Post.
Mary H. HALL
v.
Rose POST and The Post Publishing Company, Inc., d/b/a The Salisbury Post.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 6, 1988.
October 6, 1988.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Palmer, Miller, Campbell & Martin, P.A. by Joe T. Millsaps, Charlotte, for plaintiffs-appellees.
Adams, McCullough & Beard by H. Hugh Stevens, Jr., Steven J. Levitas and Pope McCorkle, III, Raleigh, and Woodson, Linn, Sayers, Lawther & Short by Donald D. Sayers, Salisbury, for defendants-appellants.
Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore by E. Osborne Ayscue, Jr., Jonathan E. Buchan and James G. Middlebrooks, Charlotte, for The Knight Pub. Co. and The North Carolina Press Ass'n, Inc., amici curiae.
Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove by Wade H. Hargrove and Mark J. Prak, Raleigh, for The North Carolina Ass'n of Broadcasters, Inc., The Radio—Television News Directors Ass'n of the Carolinas, The Associated Press, The News and Observer Publishing Company, Wilmington Star-News, Inc., Hendersonville Newspaper Corp., The Dispatch Publ. Co., and TSP Newspapers, Inc., amici curiae.
Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by Charles F. Vance, Jr., and W. Andrew Copenhaver, Winston-Salem, for Piedmont Pub. Co., amicus curiae.
Haywood, Denny, Miller, Johnson, Sessoms & Patrick by George W. Miller, Jr., Durham, for The Durham Herald Co., Inc., amicus curiae.
Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore by Alan W. Duncan, Greensboro, for The Greensboro News & Record, Inc., amicus curiae.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
MITCHELL, Justice.
In the present case, this Court must decide whether claims for tortious invasion of privacy by truthful public disclosure of "private" facts concerning the plaintiffs are cognizable at law in North Carolina. We hold that they are not and reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals.
The plaintiffs, Susie Hall and her adoptive mother, Mary Hall, brought separate civil actions against the defendants for invasion of privacy. The actions were...
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