TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006
Chicago Tribune
After listening to two weeks of testimony, a jury took just a few hours to return a verdict in the libel trial involving Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice
Robert Thomas and the Kane County Chronicle and its former columnist,
Bill Page, reports
James Kimberly. The jury awarded Thomas $1 million for economic loss reasonably certain to be experienced in the future; $1 million for personal embarrassment, mental suffering and humiliation; and $5 million for impairment of personal and professional reputation and standing in the community.
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