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New Jersey patients certified as class in reality TV suit.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-SEP-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A New Jersey trial judge has certified a statewide class of over 5,000 hospital patients who were filmed for the Discovery Channel's reality TV show Trauma: Life in the E.R. at a New Jersey hospital in 2001. However, Superior Court Judge Louis Locascio refused to certify a nationwide class of patients filmed for the same show because it would be unmanageable. (Castro v. NYT Television, No. MON-L-2743-03 (N.J., Monmouth County Super. Ct. June 2, 2005).)

The class consists of New Jersey patients who "had their confidential medical procedures, treatment, or information observed and filmed" by NYT Television (a former production unit of the New York Times Co.), which produced the show. Discovery Communications,...

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