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740 ILCS 165/1 (2026)

No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication or exhibition or utterance, such as any one edition of a newspaper or book or magazine or any one presentation to an audience or any one broadcast over radio or television or any one exhibition of a motion picture

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(740 ILCS 165/1) (from Ch. 126, par. 11)
    Sec. 1. No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication or exhibition or utterance, such as any one edition of a newspaper or book or magazine or any one presentation to an audience or any one broadcast over radio or television or any one exhibition of a motion picture. Recovery in any action shall include all damages for any such tort suffered by the plaintiff in all jurisdictions.
(Source: Laws 1959, p. 1907.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 15 cases (6 in the last 5 years), 1993–2025 · leading case: Dubinsky v. United Airlines Master Exec. Council, 708 N.E.2d 441 (Ill. App. Ct. 1999).
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Dubinsky v. United Airlines Master Exec. Council, 708 N.E.2d 441 (Ill. App. Ct. 1999). · cites it 4× “On appeal, the issue is whether plaintiffs have adequately stated causes of action for defamation and false light invasion of privacy.”
Doctor's Data, Inc. v. Barrett, 170 F. Supp. 3d 1087 (N.D. Ill. 2016). · cites it 2× “See 740 ILCS 165/1 (“No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication.”
Ciolino v. Simon, 2021 IL 126024 (Ill. 2021). · cites it 3× “See 740 ILCS 165/1 (West 2016); Weber v. Cueto, 253 Ill.”
Weber v. Cueto, 624 N.E.2d 442 (Ill. App. Ct. 1993). · cites it 3× “B Plaintiff argues generally that the cause of action in the first-amended complaint is the same as that in the original complaint, relying upon the Uniform Single Publication Act (740 ILCS 165/1 et seq. (West 1992)). For reasons that follow, we are limiting this argument to…”
Scottie Pippen v. NBCUniversal Media LLC, 734 F.3d 610 (7th Cir. 2013). “The Act protects speakers and writers from repeated litigation arising from a single, but mass-produced, defamatory publication.”
Blair v. Nevada Landing P'ship, RBG, LP, 859 N.E.2d 1188 (Ill. App. Ct. 2006). “Our determination is consistent with the Uniform Single Publication Act (740 ILCS 165/1 (West 2002)), which provides that “[n]o person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single…”
Ciolino v. Simon, 2020 IL App (1st) 190181 (Ill. App. Ct. 2021). · cites it 2× “” 740 ILCS 165/1 (West 2016). Under this rule, defamation and privacy actions are complete at the time of the first publication, and any subsequent appearances or distributions of copies of the original publication are of no consequence to the creation or existence of a cause of…”
Ciolino v. Simon, 2020 IL App (1st) 190181 (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). · cites it 2× “” 740 ILCS 165/1 (West 2016). Under this rule, defamation and privacy actions are complete at the time of the first publication, and any subsequent appearances or distributions of copies of the original publication are of no consequence to the creation or existence of a cause of…”
Ollins v. Karl, 2022 IL App (1st) 220150 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “¶ 16 Defendant argued that the Uniform Single Publication Act (740 ILCS 165/1 (West 2020)) applies here.”
Süd Fam. Ltd. P'ship v. Otto Baum Co., 2024 IL App (4th) 220782 (Ill. App. Ct. 2024). “740 ILCS 165/1 (West 2020). In this instance, the mechanic’s liens and memorandums of judgment were published once at the time they were recorded.”
Schaefer v. Nash, 149 F.R.D. 583 (N.D. Ill. 1993). “1948), and it has since been codified by the General Assembly’s adoption of the Uniform Single Publication Act (740 ILCS 165/1). Schaefer’s cause of action thus accrued in 1990 under Illinois law.”
Dubinsky v. United Airlines Master Exec. Council (Ill. App. Ct. 1999). · cites it 4× “On appeal, the issue is whether plaintiffs have adequately stated causes of action for defamation and false light invasion of privacy.”
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