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Torts - Right Of Privacy - Radio Broadcasting, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a chauffeur, had been the victim of a hold-up and shooting, suffering serious injury. Defendant sponsored a radio broadcast in which plaintiff's name was used dramatizing the affair. On hearing the broadcast, plaintiff sued in tort alleging that he suffered mental anguish and physical shock which resulted in impairing his ability to drive and caused him to be discharged from his job. Held, defendant's motion to dismiss denied, as plaintiff had stated a cause of action for invasion of a right of privacy. Mau v. Rio Grande Oil, Inc., (D. C. Cal. 1939) 28 F. Supp. 845.