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New England Life Insurance Company (in 1905) was one of the first specific endorsements of the right to privacy as derived from natural law in US law. Judith Wagner DeCew stated, "Pavesich was the first case to recognize privacy as a right in tort law by invoking natural law, common law, and constitutional values." [7]
[11] Some decades later, in a highly cited article of his own, Melville B. Nimmer described Warren and Brandeis' essay as "perhaps the most famous and certainly the most influential law review article ever written", attributing the recognition of the common law right of privacy by some 15 state courts in the United States directly to "The Right ...
Objective expectation of privacy: legitimate and generally recognized by society and perhaps protected by law. Places where individuals expect privacy include residences, hotel rooms, [1] or public places that have been provided by businesses or the public sector to ensure privacy, including public restrooms, private portions of jailhouses, [2 ...
The Court concluded that Connecticut's Comstock Law violated this right to privacy, and therefore was unconstitutional. [14] Douglas reasoned that the right to marital privacy was "older than the Bill of Rights", and ended the opinion with an impassioned appeal to the sanctity of marriage in the Anglo-American culture and common law tradition.
Right to privacy under the United States Constitution (23 P) Pages in category "United States privacy case law" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total.
The California Supreme Court reversed the trial court, finding that the couple stated a common law claim for invasion of privacy. Previously, in Melvin v. Reid, [9] a California court had found that the right to privacy originated not in the common law but in the California constitution.
Justice Douglas argued that the Court could infer a right to privacy by looking at "zones of privacy" protected by First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments: Various guarantees create zones of privacy. The right of association contained in the penumbra of the First Amendment is one, as we have seen.
A general right to privacy has otherwise been created in the tort of privacy. Such a right was recognised in Hosking v Runting [2003] 3 NZLR 385, a case that dealt with publication of private facts. In the subsequent case C v Holland [2012] NZHC 2155 the Court recognised a right to privacy in the sense of seclusion or a right to be free from ...