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2016 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 20 - PERSONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
Chapter 11 - Liability For Defamation
- § 20-11-1 Obligation to refrain from defamation.
- § 20-11-2 Classes of defamation.
- § 20-11-3 Libel defined.
- § 20-11-4 Slander defined.
- § 20-11-5 Privileged communications--Malice not inferred from publication.
- § 20-11-6 Radio and television stations not liable if due care exercised.
- § 20-11-7 Retraction notice to newspaper--Punitive damages avoided by retraction--Candidates for office.
- § 20-11-8 Newspaper retraction as rebuttal of presumption of malice.
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