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August 2022

Court Dismisses Defamation Lawsuit Over Holocaust Complicity

Chicago Case Follows Controversial Censorship Efforts in Poland

By Damon Dunn and Seth Stern
A judge dismissed defamation and false light invasion of privacy claims filed by three ethnic Poles who alleged that a Chicago Sun-Times opinion columnist ascribed “felonies under the laws of Illinois and Poland” to the “Plaintiffs and/or their families and Poles in general” when it referred to “widespread collaboration” in the killing of Jews during WWII.