Scott Skinner-Thompson, Privacy’s Double Standards, 93 Washington Law Review, (forthcoming), available on SSRN. In an age of growing income inequality and daily reminders of the privileged lives led by the rich and famous, it should come as no surprise that tort law might come to mimic the glaring disparities in the larger culture. The thesis of Scott Skinner-Thompson’s new article is that the courts have done just that in adjudicating privacy claims for the tort of public disclosure of private facts. Specifically, Skinner-Thompson argues that in applying the black letter law, courts have systematically favored privileged plaintiffs (often celebrities) without showing a similar regard for ordinary individuals, particularly plaintiffs from marginalized communities … (more)
[Martha Chamallas, JOTWELL, 3 July]
First posted 2018-07-03 12:50:01
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