Newsworthy : the Supreme Court battle over privacy and press freedom / Samantha Barbas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbas, Samantha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hill, James, 1908-.

Time, Inc--Trials, litigation, etc.

Time, Inc.

Hill, James, 1908---Trials, litigation, etc.

Hill, James.

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Privacy, Right of--United States.

Privacy, Right of.

Freedom of the press--United States.

Freedom of the press.

Physical Description:

viii, 338 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international media coverage. Public interest eventually died out, and the Hills went back to their ordinary, obscure lives. Until, a few years later, the Hills were once again unwillingly thrust into the spotlight by the media-with a best-selling novel loosely based on their ordeal, a play, a big-budget Hollywood adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart, and an article in Life magazine. Newsworthy is the story of their story, the media firestorm that ensued, and their legal fight to end unwanted, embarrassing, distorted public exposure that ended in personal tragedy. This story led to an important 1967 Supreme Court decision-Time, Inc. v. Hill-that still influences our approach to privacy and freedom of the press. Newsworthy draws on personal interviews, unexplored legal records, and archival material, including the papers and correspondence of Richard Nixon (who, prior to his presidency, was a Wall Street lawyer and argued the Hill family's case before the Supreme Court), Leonard Garment, Joseph Hayes, Earl Warren, Hugo Black, William Douglas, and Abe Fortas.

Contents:

Part I. The desperate hours. The Whitemarsh incident

Fact into fiction

The article

Part II. Hill v. Hayes. The lawsuit

Privacy

Freedom of the press

Suing the press

Maneuvers

The trial

Part III. Privacy and freedom of the press. The privacy panic

Appeals

Griswold

Nixon

Part IV. Time, Inc. v. Hill. At the court

Decisions

Time, Inc. v. Hill

The aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barbas, Samantha, author. Newsworthy

ISBN:

9780804797108

0804797102

OCLC:

948878729