Chicago Radio: Amy Jacobson To Appeal Court Ruling

Amy Jacobson

WIND 560 AM morning host and former WMAQ-Channel 5 reporter Amy Jacobson is appealing her case against CBS Broadcasting Inc. to the Illinois Supreme Court after a state appeals court ruled against her, according to The Chicago Sun-Times..

Jacobson was fired by WMAQ in July 2007 after a CBS-WBBM-Channel 2 news crew secretly filmed her clad in a bikini with her two children in tow by the pool at the Plainfield home of Craig Stebic, whose wife, Lisa Stebic, had been missing at the time for more than two months.

Jacobson, who said she had been invited to Stebic’s home unexpectedly on her day off and hoped to gather information about the ongoing story, later sued. She then appealed after a lower court ruled in favor of CBS. The appellate court sided with the lower court this fall, agreeing that Jacobson was a “limited purpose” public figure and faced a higher legal burden in her lawsuit against CBS.

That is the central issue in her appeal to the state Supreme Court, Jacobson attorney Kathleen Zellner said.

The appellate court noted Jacobson’s professional and personal life had previously been covered in the local news media, and it said she “eagerly capitalized” on her fame by appearing as a featured guest at local fund-raising events, appearing on parade floats and headlining events such as “Dancing with Chicago Celebrities.”

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