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Appellate Court of Illinois· 8/16/2002

Schivarelli v. CBS, INC.

Citations

  • 776 N.E.2d 693
  • 333 Ill. App. 3d 755
  • 267 Ill. Dec. 321

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • observing that statement “Jones is a liar” is actionable and not an opinion
  • affirming dismissal of defamation claim since publication as issue could not reasonably be understood to concern plaintiffs
  • finding the statement “ ‘the evidence seems to indicate that you’re cheating the city’ ” lacked any factual context and did not explain the evidence to which it referred
  • “To state a claim for a false light invasion of privacy, the plaintiff must [prove] *** that the false light would be highly offensive to the reasonable person”
  • “A statement is defamatory if it impeaches a person’s reputation and thereby lowers that person in the estimation of the community or deters third parties from associating with that person.”
  • A statement was opinion when it was made without “any specific factual context.”

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Judges: Sheila M. O'Brien

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