LEGAL FILE

Radio News Director Wins Suit: A jury ordered a radio station and two disc jockeys to pay $694,200 in damages to a news director whom they referred to with risque jokes on a “shock radio” program on Pittsburgh’s WBZZ-FM. Liz Randolph, 32, claimed the jokes, which implied she was promiscuous and mentally unstable, caused her to suffer panic attacks and led her to seek psychiatric treatment. Disc jockeys Jim Quinn and Donald (Banana Don) Jefferson, and EZ Communication, owner of the station, were found liable for defamation and invasion of privacy and ordered to pay about $260,000. Randolph won an additional $390,000 from Quinn and Jefferson for infliction of emotional distress. In addition, the jury awarded Randolph $30,704 for medical bills and $13,500 for lost wages.