A dispute involving an online media publisher has prompted California’s Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown to revise California’s libel law, in an effort to protect such publishers. California’s Civil Code Section 48a previously limited a plaintiff suing for libel in a newspaper to special damages, unless he or she demanded that the publisher correct the allegedly false statements and the publisher failed to make such corrections.
By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Source: JDSupra