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Illinois Supreme Court· 12/4/1992

Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp.

Citations

  • 607 N.E.2d 201
  • 154 Ill. 2d 1
  • 180 Ill. Dec. 307
  • 20 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2105
  • 1992 Ill. LEXIS 202

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that radio disc jockeys’ derogatory statements constituted defamation per se and supported a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • noting that the “conduct must be so extreme as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as intolerable in a civilized community.”
  • noting that outrageous nature of conduct may arise from defendant’s abuse of power
  • concluding radio announcers’ conduct was sufficiently extreme and outrageous where they broadcast derogatory remarks about plaintiff’s wife and child with neurofibromatosis throughout the larger Chicago area and implied they had deformed heads and were hideous
  • requiring that, to prove a false light claim, a plaintiff must allege “that the defendants acted with actual malice, that is, with knowledge that the statements were false or with reckless disregard for whether [they] were true or false”
  • finding extreme and outrageous conduct where the defendants knew the plaintiffs who suffered a disease were susceptible to emotional pain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bilandic, Freeman

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