Robert E. Muzikowski v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, Sfx Tollin Robbins Incorporated, and Fireworks Pictures

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• finding Illinois’ heightened pleading rule for defamation per se does not apply to Rule 8 notice pleading in federal court
• notwithstanding Illinois’ pleading rule, a “claim for defamation per se does not fall under the special pleading regime of Rule 9, and thus [plaintiff] is entitled to the usual rules for notice pleading established by Rule 8”
• “Illinois imposes a one-year statute of limitations on all defamation actions that begins to run when the defamatory statement was published.”
• “[T]he Illinois pleading rule . . . of course does not apply in federal court.”

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