Civ. Code, § 3425.3 · Title 4. UNIFORM SINGLE PUBLICATION ACT
Civ. Code, § 3425.3
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
No person shall have more than one 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 issue of a newspaper or book or magazine or any one presentation to an audience or any one broadcast over radio or television or any one exhibition of a motion picture. Recovery in any action shall include all damages for any such tort suffered by the plaintiff in all jurisdictions.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 867.
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