2016 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 41 - Torts
Article 7 - Libel and Slander
Section 41-7-1 - Limitation of tort actions based on single publication or utterance; damages recoverable.
41-7-1. [Limitation of tort actions based on single publication or utterance; damages recoverable.]
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 edition 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.
History: 1953 Comp., 40-27-30, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 50, 1; 1978 Comp., 30-34-1, recompiled as 1978 Comp., 41-7-1.
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