J 350F Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Food Lion, Spurn
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Usually occurs during the information gathering process: might include trespass, but can occur without a trespass. (telescope, long-range microphones) Hospital rooms, ambulances, hotel rooms, private o ces, and public toilet stalls-yes. If it is a public area, or you can see it from a public area, then ilming it not likely intrusion same with sound. Film crew follows paramedics into private bedroom to ilm working on heart attack victim ilm crew had no permission to enter held that this was an intrusion. Film crew covering a story of a pharmacist under investigation goes to closed pharmacy and ilms pharmacist through the window while he is on the phone no intrusion. Shulman v group w productions california supreme court. Shulman was involved in a bad tra c accident. Her removal from the car and treatment on the side of the road was ilmed and aired but no claim because newsworthy and public.
