false light privacy

false light privacy
Where a privacy action is brought against the media because a report has been published that is false, the privacy plaintiff will be required to show, if the report was newsworthy, that the publication was made with actual malice. Time, Inc. v. Hill, 385 U.S. 374, 87 S.Ct. 534, 17 L.Ed.2d 456

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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