Guide to Privacy: West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia recognizes the four privacy torts.

False light: The publication of a photograph of a female West Virginia miner that was used to illustrate an article about harassment of female miners elsewhere implied that the miner pictured had been harassed and was sufficient grounds for a false light claim. Crump v. Beckley Newspapers, 320 S.E.2d 70 (W. Va. 1984).

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