PASADENA STAR-NEWS v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B035286.

203 Cal.App.3d 131 (1988)

249 Cal. Rptr. 729

PASADENA STAR-NEWS, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; D.M. et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

July 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, John A. Blue and Thomas Myers for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Rosenberg & Wessling, John J. Wessling, Morris, Polich & Purdy, Gerald P. Schneeweis and Dean A. Olson for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

COMPTON, Acting P.J.

In this mandamus proceeding, a defendant newspaper publisher seeks a writ compelling the superior court to grant its motion for summary judgment in an invasion-of-privacy case.

Petitioner published two newspaper articles about a newborn baby girl who was taken to a hospital and abandoned there. The first article reported that the baby, when only hours old, was brought to the hospital by a man who...

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