Weber v. Cueto

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[t]he Act prohibits more than one cause of action for the same means of publication, no matter how many times that publication is reproduced”
• upholding the dismissal of a civil -30- conspiracy claim where the one-year statute of limitations had expired on the underlying, allegedly defamatory statements
• single publication rule did not apply where original publication was privileged report to government authorities and later publication was not privileged and intended for general public
• “[C]onspiracy, standing alone, is not a separate and distinct tort in Illinois.”
• “No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages -6- for libel or slander *** founded upon any single publication or exhibition or utterance, such as any one edition of a newspaper or book or magazine ***.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).