(DOWNLOAD) "Chapski v. Copley Press" by Supreme Court of Illinois # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Chapski v. Copley Press
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 22, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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Plaintiff, Robert A. Chapski, an attorney, filed this libel action in the circuit court of Kane County seeking damages against defendants, the Copley Press, the Daily Courier News, Michael Bailey, a reporter, D. Ray Wilson, editor and publisher, and LeRoy Clemens, executive editor. The circuit court granted defendants' motion to dismiss on the basis of the innocent construction rule, and the appellate court affirmed (100 Ill. App.3d 1012). We allowed plaintiff's petition for leave to appeal. The series of newspaper articles upon which the complaint was based appeared in the Daily Courier News, the local Elgin newspaper, during the period of February 8, 1979, through January 25, 1980. There were 13 articles published on 11 different dates, most of which purported to summarize and clarify the judicial proceedings and events that preceded the death on February 2, 1979, of two-year-old Kristie Hubbard, a victim of child abuse. Plaintiff represented the child's mother, Kathleen Insco Hubbard, in juvenile and divorce proceedings. Norman Platter, Mrs. Hubbard's boyfriend, was subsequently convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in connection with the child's death. Mrs. Hubbard apparently received a 30-day jail sentence for a less serious offense.