Case Categories: Privacy

• Barber v. Time (1942)

  Barber v. Time (Mo. 1942) ruled that press freedom and individual privacy are not absolute rights and must be balanced. Courts must consider the "proper public...

• Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co. (1974)

  Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co. (1974) ruled against a newspaper for an article casting the plaintiff in false light, showing the limits of First...

• Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn (1975)

  In Cox Broadcasting v. Cohn (1975), the Supreme Court said journalists had a First Amendment right to release information found in public domain records...

• Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press (1989)

  DOJ v. Reporters Comm. for Free Press (1989) reiterated that the First Amendment does not give the press special access to information not available to the...

• Department of the Air Force v. Rose (1976)

  Department of Air Force v. Rose (1976) looked at privacy rights in interpreting the FOIA to require disclosure of summaries of ethics hearings at the Air Force...

• Dietemann v. Time (1971)

  Dietemann v. Time (9th Cir. 1971) ruled that First Amendment freedom of the press does not give reporters special license to violate individuals’ privacy...

• Florida Star v. B.J.F. (1989)

  In Florida Star v. B.J.F. (1989), the Supreme Court said the First Amendment stopped a newspaper from being held liable for publishing a rape victim's name...

• Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) elaborated the right to privacy by invalidating a law that made it a crime to use birth control devices or to advise about their...

• Snyder v. Phelps (2011)

  Snyder v. Phelps (2011) ruled that the First Amendment prohibited the pressing of civil charges upon a church who picketed the funeral of a slain Marine...

• Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967)

  Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967) extended the actual malice standard to a false light invasion of privacy to ensure the First Amendment freedom of the press was not...

• Uphaus v. Wyman (1959, 1960)

  The Supreme Court in 1959 and 1960 upheld the contempt conviction that led to the jailing of Methodist pacifist minister Dr. Willard Uphaus for refusing to...