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The lawsuit was brought by the parents and sisters of Nikki Catsouras, 18, who was killed on a toll road in Lake Forest on Halloween in 2006. A state appeals court reversed a lower court decision Tuesday dismissing the lawsuit, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Two highway patrol officers, Thomas O'Donnell and Aaron Reich, e-mailed nine photos of the crash to friends, the patrol says. They included an image of Catsouras's decapitated body.

"Once received, the photographs were forwarded to others, and thus spread across the Internet like a malignant firestorm, popping up in thousands of Web sites", the appeals ruling said.

The Catsouras family began receiving e-mails from strangers who had found the photographs on Web sites that included pornography and gruesome images. They sued for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.

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