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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 432 OFFENSES AGAINST THE STATE AND PUBLIC JUSTICE
432.280 Court may bring criminal action for libel or slander -- Punish resistance to judicial order.
Download pdfagainst any person writing or publishing a libel or slanderous words concerning such
court or judge in relation to his judicial conduct in court by indictment, nor prevent any
court from punishing any person guilty of a contempt in resisting or disobeying any
judicial order or process issued by or under the authority of such court. Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1299.
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