Daniel Solove writes: Last year, I wrote about a case involving a lawsuit by a family against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) for improperly disseminating the accident-scene photos of their daughter (Nikki Catsouras), who perished in a gruesome automobile accident. Two dispatchers for the CHP emailed the photos to others, and they soon began being…
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California family settles lawsuit over leaked crash images
Dan Whitcomb of Reuters reports a settlement in a precedent-setting case I’ve been covering for the past several years: The family of a teen whose mangled corpse was shown in horrific car-crash photos that went viral online has settled a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol for $2.37 million, ending a 5-year legal battle that…
Gruesome death photos are at the forefront of an Internet privacy battle
Christopher Goffard reports: Three weeks after his 18-year-old daughter sped away in his Porsche and swerved to her death in Lake Forest, Christos Catsouras understood why he had not been allowed to see her body. Photographs of the Halloween 2006 crash, taken and leaked by the California Highway Patrol, were proliferating on the Internet. The…
Jackson’s Dad Wants to Sue Over Death Photos
Privacy rights generally belong to the living, but it seems to me that I’m beginning to see a number of lawsuits involving photos of the dead. Previously on this site, I covered lawsuits by the families of Jeremy Wooten and Nikki Catsouras. Now Michael Jackson’s father wants leave to file suit over photos of Michael…