Title
Justice Carter's Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess
Contributor Roles
Chapter Contributor: Markita D. Cooper, "Justice Carter's Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess"
Book Co-Editors: David B. Oppenheimer and Allan Brotsky
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Description
Jesse W. Carter served as a justice on the California Supreme Court from 1939-1959, where he was known as “The Lone Dissenter” because he wrote so many solo dissents. Many of these opinions were in passionate defense of civil rights, civil liberties, and the rights of labor, criminal defendants, and personal injury victims. Several of the cases were reversed by the United States Supreme Court, or by later decisions of the California Supreme Court, adopting Justice Carter’s reasoning. Professor Cooper points out in her essay that not all of Justice Carter’s dissenting positions were later vindicated by these courts. In Justice Carter’s Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess, she discusses Justice Carter’s views on privacy rights in public places noting that Justice Carter saw privacy as a “matter of dignity, not just a matter of location” and suggesting that his view is instructive in an age of digital cameras, advanced technology, and the Internet.
ISBN
978-1-59460-810-0
Publication Date
2010
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
Carolina Academic Press
City
Durham, North Carolina
Disciplines
Jurisprudence | Law | Legal Biography
Recommended Citation
Cooper, Markita D., "Justice Carter's Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess" (2010). Faculty Books and Book Contributions. 1.
https://commons.law.famu.edu/faculty-books/1
Comments
The essay entitled "Justice Carter's Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess" was written by Professor Markita D. Cooper, as a chapter in the book The Great Dissents of the "Lone Dissenter," edited by David B. Oppenheimer and Allan Brotsky.