Kurczaba v. Pollock

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, with little discussion, that the privilege did not apply where an attorney published the defamatory contents of a pleading he also drafted
• refusing to extend the privilege to statements made by an attorney to a reporter in connection with a case
• stating that rule in a purely civil context
• collecting cases, emphasizing Illinois courts typically find allegations insufficient to plead special damages
• allegations that the plaintiff was damaged monetarily by losing gainful employment and wages and had suffered great mental pain and anguish for which she underwent expensive treatment
• allegations that the plaintiffs “suffered a loss of business and income” and “great embarrassment” were insufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).