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INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Tarka v. Filipovic, 45 Conn. App. 46 (1997)

Citation
Tarka v. Filipovic, 45 Conn. App. 46 (1997)
Parent Document
Tarka v. Filipovic, 45 Conn. App. 46 (1997)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1997-05-06

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Our Supreme Court has described the four types of invasion of privacy: “(1) appropriation, for the defendant’s benefit or advantage, of the plaintiffs name or likeness; (2) intrusion upon the plaintiffs physical solitude or seclusion; (3) publicity, of a highly objectionable kind, given to private information about the plaintiff even though it is true and no action would lie for defamation; and (4) publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye.” Venturi v. Savitt, Inc., 191 Conn. 588, 591 n.l, 468 A.2d 933 (1983). “Section 652D of the Restatement (Second) of Torts defines a tort action for the invasion of personal privacy as being triggered by public disclosure of any matter that ‘(a) would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (b) is not of legitimate concern to the public.’ ” Perkins v. Freedom of Information Commission, 228 Conn. 158, 172, 635 A.2d 783 (1993). “Comment (c) of § 652D recognizes, however, that not all personal and private information is protected from public disclosure: ‘The rule stated in [§ 652D] gives protection only against *54unreasonable publicity, of a kind highly offensive to the ordinary reasonable [person].’ ” Id., 173.