Opinion ID: 2999611
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The UDTPA: Count 9

Text: The district court dismissed this count as moot, given that the UDTPA allows only for injunctive relief and by the time summary judgment occurred all picketing and handbilling had stopped. Reinke finds error in this ruling, arguing that the UDTPA also allows for attorney’s fees, which would be a valuable remedy. Reinke does not explain how it can be awarded attorney’s fees when no substantive relief is available under the statute. Reinke, in effect, tells us we can read the fee-shifting provision of this statute as a stand alone remedy, an argument we have great difficulty understanding, let alone accepting. In any event, Reinke’s claim under this statute is premised on its ability to show the No. 05-3555 13 Union disparaged it on the basis of “false or misleading representation[s] of fact.” 815 ILCS 510/2(a)(8). Success on this claim would require actual malice, Linn, 383 U.S. at 61, a showing Reinke cannot make.