The 1st District Appellate Court recently weighed in on the nature and scope of defamation law and the false light and intrusion on seclusion civil claims in a case involving a well-known Chicago newscaster. In Amy Jacobson v. CBS Broadcasting Inc., 2014 IL App (1st) 132480, the plaintiff — a former NBC television reporter — sued rival network CBS when it aired a video of her at the backyard swimming pool of a person of interest in a high-profile missing person case the plaintiff was covering. CBS showed …