Fried v. Jacobson

Plaintiff, Bernard Allen Fried, an attorney, filed this libel action in the circuit court of Cook County seeking damages against defendants, Walter Jacobson, Susan Anderson, William Kurtis, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., and WBBM-TV CBS television station, a division of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. The circuit court granted the defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings and the appellate court unanimously affirmed (107 Ill. App. 3d 780). We allowed plaintiff’s petition for leave to appeal.

The series of broadcasts upon which the complaint was based were aired by the defendant,…