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Newsgathering After The Death Of A Princess: Do American Laws Adequately Punish And Deter Newsgathering Conduct That Places Individuals In Fear Or At Risk Of Bodily Harm, Alissa Eden Halperin
Newsgathering After The Death Of A Princess: Do American Laws Adequately Punish And Deter Newsgathering Conduct That Places Individuals In Fear Or At Risk Of Bodily Harm, Alissa Eden Halperin
Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal
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Prying, Spying, And Lying: Intrusive Newsgathering And What The Law Should Do About It, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky
Prying, Spying, And Lying: Intrusive Newsgathering And What The Law Should Do About It, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky
UF Law Faculty Publications
The media's use of intrusive newsgathering techniques poses an increasing threat to individual privacy. Courts currently resolve the overwhelming majority of conflicts in favor of the media. This is not because the First Amendment bars the imposition of tort liability on the media for its newsgathering practices. It does not. Rather, tort law has failed to seize the opportunity to create meaninful privacy protection. After surveying the economic, philosophical, and practical obstacles to reform, this Article proposes to rejuvenate the tort of intrusion to tip the balance between privacy and the press back in privacy's direction. Working within the framework …