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SNITOWSKY v. NBC SUBSIDIARY (WMAQ-TV), INC.

No. 1-97-3638.

696 N.E.2d 761 (1998)

297 Ill. App.3d 304

231 Ill.Dec. 465

Rosalyn SNITOWSKY Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NBC SUBSIDIARY (WMAQ-TV), INC., d/b/a NBC Five, Defendant-Appellee (Marjorie Adams, Defendant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, Paul K. Vickrey and Robert P. Greenspoon, Chicago, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Samuel Fifer, Chicago; National Broadcasting Co., Inc. of New York, Alisa D. Shudofsky, New York City, for Defendant-Appellee.

Presiding Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

WMAQ-TV broadcast a report that Marjorie Adams, the principal of Nettelhorst School, had charged Rosalyn Snitowsky, a special education teacher, with serious misconduct. Snitowsky sued Adams and WMAQ for defamation and invasion of privacy. The trial court dismissed the counts against WMAQ for failure to state a cause of action and because several privileges protected the reports. Snitowsky appeals.

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