Legal Opinion
Kumaran v. Brotman
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 28, 1993No. 1-91-1885PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Buckley
Plaintiff Sampath Kumaran, a former substitute school teacher and security guard, filed a pro se defamation complaint on June 1, 1990, against two media defendants and two nonmedia defendants. Plaintiff’s complaint alleged that he had been libeled by an article published in the Chicago Tribune (the Tribune) on August 8, 1989. The media defendants are the Chicago Tribune Company (incorrectly sued as Chicago Tribune Newspaper) and the reporter who wrote the newspaper article in controversy, Barbara Brotman. The nonmedia defendants are two attorneys, James J. Roche (incorrectly sued as James B.…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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