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.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3425.3
UNIFORM SINGLE PUBLICATION ACT
Known as the Uniform Single Publication Act
The act spans §§ 3425–3425 (5 sections).
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case 31 Cal. 4th 1230 - Shively v. Bozanich (2003)
Most recently applied in 224 F. Supp. 3d 1022 - Youngevity International, Corp. v. Smith (December 2016)
Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 867.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.