Tom Olesker's Exciting World of Fashion, Inc. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Tom Olesker’s Exciting World of Fashion, Inc., from an order dismissing its three count complaint as being barred by Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 83, par. 14, which provides that an action for libel, slander or invasion of privacy must be commenced within one year after the cause accrues. The plaintiff contends that a confidential credit report issued by the defendant to its subscribers was not the type of publication which was intended by the legislature to come within the one-year limitation period of that statute, and that the so-caHed “blameless ignorance…