Texas Civil Practice And Remedies Code Title 4, Chapter 73 - Libel

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 73.001 - Elements Of Libel
  A libel is a defamation expressed in written or other graphic form that tends to blacken the memory of the dead or that tends to...
• Texas Section 73.002 - Privileged Matters
  (a) The publication by a newspaper or other periodical of a matter covered by this section is privileged and is not a ground for a...
• Texas Section 73.003 - Mitigating Factors
  (a) To determine the extent and source of actual damages and to mitigate exemplary damages, the defendant in a libel action may give evidence of...
• Texas Section 73.004 - Liability Of Broadcaster
  (a) A broadcaster is not liable in damages for a defamatory statement published or uttered in or as a part of a radio or television...
• Texas Section 73.005 - Truth A Defense
  (a) The truth of the statement in the publication on which an action for libel is based is a defense to the action. (b) In...

SUBCHAPTER B CORRECTION, CLARIFICATION, OR RETRACTION BY PUBLISHER

• Texas Section 73.006 - Other Defenses
  This chapter does not affect the existence of common law, statutory law, or other defenses to libel. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 73.051 - Short Title
  This subchapter may be cited as the Defamation Mitigation Act. This subchapter shall be liberally construed. Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 950...
• Texas Section 73.052 - Purpose
  The purpose of this subchapter is to provide a method for a person who has been defamed by a publication or broadcast to mitigate any...
• Texas Section 73.053 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, or other legal or commercial entity. The term does...
• Texas Section 73.054 - Applicability
  (a) This subchapter applies to a claim for relief, however characterized, from damages arising out of harm to personal reputation caused by the false content...
• Texas Section 73.055 - Request For Correction, Clarification, Or Retraction
  (a) A person may maintain an action for defamation only if: (1) the person has made a timely and sufficient request for a correction, clarification,...
• Texas Section 73.056 - Disclosure Of Evidence Of Falsity
  (a) A person who has been requested to make a correction, clarification, or retraction may ask the person making the request to provide reasonably available...
• Texas Section 73.057 - Timely And Sufficient Correction, Clarification, Or Retraction
  (a) A correction, clarification, or retraction is timely if it is made not later than the 30th day after receipt of: (1) the request for...
• Texas Section 73.058 - Challenges To Correction, Clarification, Or Retraction Or To Request For Correction, Clarification, Or Retraction
  (a) If a defendant in an action under this subchapter intends to rely on a timely and sufficient correction, clarification, or retraction, the defendant's intention...
• Texas Section 73.059 - Effect Of Correction, Clarification, Or Retraction
  If a correction, clarification, or retraction is made in accordance with this subchapter, regardless of whether the person claiming harm made a request, a person...
• Texas Section 73.060 - Scope Of Protection
  A timely and sufficient correction, clarification, or retraction made by a person responsible for a publication constitutes a correction, clarification, or retraction made by all...
• Texas Section 73.061 - Admissibility Of Evidence Of Correction, Clarification, Or Retraction
  (a) A request for a correction, clarification, or retraction, the contents of the request, and the acceptance or refusal of the request are not admissible...
• Texas Section 73.062 - Abatement
  (a) A person against whom a suit is pending who does not receive a written request for a correction, clarification, or retraction, as required by...

Last modified: September 28, 2016