Legal Opinion
Catalano v. Pechous
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided October 17, 1980No. 51912, 51931 consPublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ward
The plaintiffs, who are seven of the eight aldermen that comprise the city council of Berwyn, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County against the defendants, Robert C. Pechous, the city clerk, Mark Fine-man, a reporter for Suburban Week, a weekly supplement to the Chicago Sun-Times, and Field Enterprises, Inc. (Field), the publisher of the Sun-Times. The action sought damages for a defamatory statement allegedly made by Pechous at a council meeting and repeated several months later to Fineman, who quoted it in an article which appeared in Suburban Week.
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