TITLE 6

ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES

CHAPTER 7

LIBEL AND SLANDER

6-702.  Uniform single publication act — One cause of action for libel or slander — Recovery. No person shall have more than one (1) 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 (1) edition of a newspaper or book or magazine or any one (1) presentation to an audience or any one (1) broadcast over radio or television or any one (1) exhibition of a motion picture. Recovery in any action shall include all damages for any such tort suffered by the plaintiff in all jurisdictions.

History:

[6-702, added 1953, ch. 109, sec. 1, p. 143.]