Supreme Court of California

The producers and presenters of a television documentary program may not be held liable in tort for publishing information gathered from public official court records concerning a person who previously served a prison term for a felony conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2004
• Published 12/06/2004

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Leopold, Petrich & Smith, Louis P. Petrich and Robert S. Gutierrez, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants., McDermott Will & Emery, Robert H. Rotstein and Nicholas F. Oettinger for the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Davis Wright Tremaine, Gary L. Bostwick, Kelli L. Sager and Marc A. Fuller, Los Angeles, for CBS Broadcasting, Inc., The Copley Press, Inc., The McClatchy Company, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, Bloomberg L.P., the First Amendment Project, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the California First Amendment Coalition as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Niles R. Sharif, La Mesa, for Plaintiff and Respondent.