Law for Business 12th Edition by James Barnes,Terry Dworkin,Eric Richards

Exercise 2

Gates pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a murder. He served his 3-year sentence and lived an obscure private life for the next 10 years. Then Discovery Communications produced a documentary about the crime. Gates sued Discovery for invasion of privacy, arguing that due to his quiet, lawful life for 10 years his activities were no longer newsworthy and that his privacy was invaded. Was it? Why?