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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
June 13, 2001 Session

CHARMAINE WEST, ET AL. v. MEDIA GENERAL CONVERGENCE, INC,
ET AL.

Rule 23 Certified Question of Law
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
No. 1:00-cv-184, R. Allan Edgar, Chief United States District Judge

No. M2001-00141-SC-R23-CQ - Filed August 23, 2001
Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee,1 this Court accepted certification of the following question from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee:
Do the courts of Tennessee recognize the tort of false light invasion of privacy, and if so, what are the parameters and elements of that tort?
We conclude that Tennessee recognizes the tort of false light invasion of privacy and that Section 652E of the Restatement (Second) of Torts (1977), as modified by our discussion below, is an accurate statement of the elements of this tort in Tennessee.  We further conclude that the parameters of the doctrine are illustrated by the Comments to Sections 652A and 652E-I, and by this Court

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