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ANONSEN v. DONAHUE

No. 01-91-00377-CV.

857 S.W.2d 700 (1993)

Nancy ANONSEN and Michael Anonsen, Individually and as next friends of William Booher, Jr., Appellants, v. Phil DONAHUE, Multimedia Entertainment, Inc., Multimedia, Inc., Jose Pretlo, KTRK, Inc. d/b/a KTRK-TV, and Miriam Booher, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Berg, Houston, for appellants.

James R. George, Julie A. Ford, Austin, James B. Galbraith, Kenneth J. Bower, Galveston, Otto D. Hewitt, III, Alvin, for appellees.

Before OLIVER-PARROTT, C.J., and COHEN and O'CONNOR, JJ.

OPINION

OLIVER-PARROTT, Chief Justice.

The question before the Court is whether a person's right to make public the most private details of their own life is limited when the information also reveals painful intimacies of other persons. We find that it is not.

On January 5, 1989, appellee, Miriam (Mickey) Booher appeared as a guest on the Phil Donahue Show, the subject matter of which was pregnancies resulting from incest or rape. Booher told a nationwide...

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