Unelko Corp., an Illinois Corporation Howard G. Ohlhausen v. Andy Rooney, an Individual Cbs, Inc.

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• holding that plaintiff’s tortious interference claims and product disparagement claims were “subject to the same first amendment requirements that govern actions for defamation”
• concluding that defendant 3 Rooney’s opinion that a wind-shield treatment product “didn’t work” was “based on 4 factual observations to a sufficient extent to imply an assertion of fact”
• holding statements about product effectiveness aired on “60 Minutes” to be matter of public concern
• acknowledging that the plaintiff's tort claims for product disparagement, trade libel, and tortious interference with business relationships were \subject to the same [F]irst [A]mendment requirements that govern actions for defamation\
• holding claims for product disparagement were “subject to the same first amendment requirements that govern actions for defamation.”
• holding the statement that a product “didn’t work” was capable of being proved true or false and was thus sufficiently factual to be defamatory

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