TAUS v. LOFTUS

No. S133805.

54 Cal.Rptr.3d 775 (2007)

40 Cal.4th 683

151 P.3d 1185

Nicole TAUS, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Elizabeth LOFTUS et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

February 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis Wright Tremaine, Thomas R. Burke, San Francisco, Rochelle L. Wilcox, Los Angeles; Christopher Patti, Oakland; Selman-Breitman, Jeane Struck, Gregg A. Thornton, San Francisco; Rutan & Tucker and Duke F. Wahlquist, Costa Mesa, for Defendants and Appellants Elizabeth Loftus, Melvin Guyer, Carol Tavris, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), Skeptical Inquirer and Center for Inquiry West.

John P. Hollinrake, Walnut Creek, and Demosthenes Lorandos for Defendant and Appellant Shaprio Investigations.

R. Chris Barden; Bishop, Barry, Howe, Haney & Ryder and Mark C. Raskoff, Emeryville, for National Committee of Scientists for Academic Liberty as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Thomas A. Pavlinic and Kristine M. Burk, Woodland Hills, for The False Memory Syndrome Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, James E. Grossberg, Seth D. Berlin, Jeanette Melendez Bead; Harold W. Fuson, Jr., La Jolla; Michael Kahane, Barbara Tarlow; Cohn & Marks, Kevin M. Goldberg; Charles J. Glasser, Jr.; Peter Scheer, San Francisco; Thomas W. Newton, Sacramento, James W. Ewert; Anthony M. Bongiorno; David M. Giles; Barbara W. Wall; Jonathan Donnellan, Kristina E. Findikyan; Karlene W. Goller, Los Angeles; Stephen J. Burns, Sacramento; King & Ballow, Tonda Rush; Susan E. Weiner, James Lichtman, Craig Bloom, Sylmar; George Freeman, David E. McCraw; Wiley Rein & Fielding, Kathleen A. Kirby; Lucy A. Dalgish, Gregg P. Leslie, Baker & Hostetler, Bruce W. Sanford, Robert D. Lystad, Bruce D. Brown; and Robin Bierstedt for The Copley Press, Inc. American Media, Inc., The American Society of Newspaper Editors, Bloomberg News, California First Amendment Coalition,

California Newspaper Publishers Association, CBS Broadcasting, Inc., CBS Radio, Inc., The E.W. Scripps Company, Freedom Communications, Inc. dba The Orange County Register, Gannett Co., Inc., The Hearst Corporation, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, The McClatchy Company, National Newspaper Association, NBC Universal, Inc., The New York Times Company, Radio-Television News Directors Association, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Society of Professional Journalists and Time Inc. as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

McCloskey, Hubbard, Ebert & Moore, Hubbard & Ebert and Julian J. Hubbard, Redwood City, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

A. Steven Frankel for The Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


GEORGE, C.J.

Plaintiff in this action, Nicole Taus, was the unnamed subject of a "case study" set forth in a prominent scholarly article describing her apparent recovery of a longrepressed memory of childhood abuse. (The article referred to plaintiff as "Jane Doe.") Defendants are the authors and publishers of two subsequent articles that, in questioning the basic premise advanced by the initial article, disclosed various aspects of plaintiffs family background and...

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