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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLV
TORTS
Chapter 770
DEFAMATION
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F.S. 770.05
770.05 Limitation of choice of venue.No person shall have more than one choice of venue for damages for libel or slander, invasion of privacy, or any other tort founded upon any single publication, exhibition, or utterance, such as any one edition of a newspaper, book, or magazine, any one presentation to an audience, 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.s. 1, ch. 67-52.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 770.05
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Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

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MAZUR, KYC LLC LLC U. S. v. OSPINA BARAYA,, 275 So. 3d 812 (Fla. App. Ct. 2019)

. . . Interestingly, section 770.05, which addresses limitation of choice of venue, does specifically include . . .

NORKIN, v. THE FLORIDA BAR, a, 311 F. Supp. 3d 1299 (S.D. Fla. 2018)

. . . action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05 . . . Stat. §§ 770.05, 770.07. . . .

Dr. ASHRAF, v. ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM SUNBELT, INC. a d b a, 200 So. 3d 173 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)

. . . action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05 . . .

PENNSYLVANIA CHIROPRACTIC ASSOCIATION, v. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION,, 76 F. Supp. 3d 722 (N.D. Ill. 2014)

. . . The firm asks the Court to award $391.94 for database access, $4,764.85 for depositions, $770.05 for . . .

BASKIN, v. BOGAN, v., 766 F.3d 648 (7th Cir. 2014)

. . . Id., § 770.05(5). . . .

MILLER, v. ANHEUSER BUSCH, INC. a, 348 F. App'x 547 (11th Cir. 2009)

. . . . § 770.05 (“No person shall have more than one choice of venue for damages for libel or slander, invasion . . . action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s.770.05 . . .

MILLER, v. ANHEUSER BUSCH, INC., 591 F. Supp. 2d 1377 (S.D. Fla. 2008)

. . . action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05 . . . Stat, § 770.05 (defines actions subject to single publication rule as “libel or slander, invasion of . . .

In C. McVICKER, Co. v. C., 234 B.R. 732 (Bankr. E.D. Ark. 1999)

. . . May 4 when she spent $794.64, April 29 when her purchases totaled $940.21, April 27 when she charged $770.05 . . .

PUTNAM BERKLEY GROUP, INC. a a v. DININ, 734 So. 2d 532 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

. . . See § 770.05, Fla. Stat. (1997). . . .

In UNITED MARINE SHIPBUILDING, INC. B. McCARTY, v. NATIONAL BANK OF ALASKA, N. A., 198 B.R. 970 (Bankr. W.D. Wash. 1996)

. . . Arguably, the $770.05 set off by the IRS relating to the period ending December 31, 1993, is for a period . . .

A. PELULLO, v. S. PATTERSON, II,, 788 F. Supp. 234 (D.N.J. 1992)

. . . . § 770.05, which defines a single publication to include “any one edition of a newspaper, book or magazine . . .

J. C. ARMSTRONG, Jr. v. TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY d b a St., 481 So. 2d 41 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . In Per-due, supra, this statute was construed in pari materia with Section 770.05, which addresses the . . .

OAK LAMINATES DIVISION OF OAK MATERIALS GROUP, v. UNITED STATES,, 601 F. Supp. 1031 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1984)

. . . Plaintiff contended that the merchandise was properly classifiable under item 770.05, TSUS, as “articles . . . properly classified as “articles not specially provided for, of rubber or plastics ... other,” under item 770.05 . . .

d o v., 8 Ct. Int'l Trade 300 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1984)

. . . Plaintiff contended that the merchandise was properly classifiable under item 770.05, TSUS, as “articles . . . classified as “articles not specially provided for, of rubber or plastics * * * other,” under item 770.05 . . .

OAK LAMINATES DIVISION OAK MATERIALS GROUP, v. UNITED STATES,, 628 F. Supp. 1577 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1984)

. . . protests this classification and contends that the merchandise is properly classifiable under item 770.05 . . . not specially provided for wholly or almost wholly of reinforced or laminated plastics: Laminated: 770.05 . . . that the merchandise was incorrectly classified by customs, and is properly classifiable under item 770.05 . . . properly classified as “articles not specially provided for, of rubber or plastics ... other,” under item 770.05 . . .

d o v., 8 Ct. Int'l Trade 175 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1984)

. . . protests this classification and contends that the merchandise is properly classifiable under item 770.05 . . . that the merchandise was incorrectly classified by customs, and is properly classifiable under item 770.05 . . . classified as “articles not specially provided for, of rubber or plastics * * * other,” under item 770.05 . . .

EDWARD L. NEZELEK, INC. a v. SUNBEAM TELEVISION CORPORATION, A d b a WCKT- TV, 413 So. 2d 51 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)

. . . . §§ 770.05, 770.08, Florida Statutes (1979), Perdue v. . . .

PERDUE, a k a v. MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, a, 291 So. 2d 604 (Fla. 1974)

. . . . §§ 770.05-770.08, F.S.A., and held that venue of the instant action properly lay only in Dade County . . . Legislature responded to the above decision by enacting Chapter 67-52 which in pertinent part became F.S. § 770.05 . . . distribution or circulation. . ” (emphasis added) Thus, when we read our “single publication” act (§ 770.05 . . . course, as earlier outlined, only one of these available venues may be chosen in accordance with F.S. § 770.05 . . . action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in § 770.05 . . . of 1966, the Florida Legislature sought to reverse the effect of that decision by enacting Section 770.05 . . .

PERDUE v. MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO., 34 Fla. Supp. 3 (De Soto Cty. Cir. Ct. 1970)

. . . News-Journal Corporation, 196 So.2d 97 (1966), rehearing denied, February 8, 1967, the legislature enacted §§770.05 . . .