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Fla. Stat. § 770.07 (2025)
Cause of action, time of accrual.
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770.07 Cause of action, time of accrual.—The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05, shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of the first publication or exhibition or utterance thereof in this state.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 27
cases (8 in the last 5 years), 1970–2025 · leading case: Putnam Berkley Grp., Inc. v. Dinin, 734 So. 2d 532 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999).
Putnam Berkley Grp., Inc. v. Dinin, 734 So. 2d 532 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). “[6] § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (1997). [7] § 540.08(2), Fla.”
Wagner, Nugent, Johnson v. Flanagan, 629 So. 2d 113 (Fla. 1993). “I would suggest that the legislature revisit this issue. To my mind, a good alternative to the present scheme would be to include a discovery rule in the accrual statute, but limit the discovery period by a longer statute of repose judged from the date of first publication.”
Ashraf v. Adventist Health Sys./Sunbelt, Inc., 200 So. 3d 173 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016). “” § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (2014!). The single publication rule is “merely a convenient tool to express the rule that all causes of action for widely circulated libel must be litigated in one trial, and that each [publication] need not be separately pleaded and provided.”
Weeks v. Town of Palm Beach, 252 So. 3d 258 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). “2d at 115 ; accord § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (2012). "Although chapter 770 primarily addresses media defendants, we note that the chapter is broadly titled Civil Actions for Libel.”
Norkin v. Fla. Bar, 311 F. Supp. 3d 1299 (S.D. Fla. 2018). “Plaintiff makes three arguments against dismissal: (1) the claim did not become ripe until he informed MNT of the allegedly defamatory articles; (2) the statute of limitations clock starts running anew each day that the articles are available on the internet through MNT's…”
Florida Dep't of Ins. v. Blackburn (In Re Blackburn), 209 B.R. 4 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1997). “The court held that the discovery rule was inapplicable to defamation claims because the defamation statute, Section 770.07, Florida Statutes, specifically provides for statute of limitations purposes that a cause of action for defamation accrues upon first publication.”
Florida Gamco, Inc. v. Fontaine, 68 So. 3d 923 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011). “” § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (2010). Mirabella testified that the phone conversations and email originated from Leon County, shifting the burden to Fon-taine.”
Perdue v. Miami Herald Publ'g Co., 291 So. 2d 604 (Fla. 1974). “" [2] Fla. Stat. § 770.07 , F.S.A.: "The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in § 770.”
Musto v. Bell South Telecomm., 748 So. 2d 296 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). “That case concerned a single private defamatory statement and interpretation of section 770.07, Florida Statutes (1987), which sets the time of accrual of a cause of action "founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance.”
Baucom v. Haverty, 805 So. 2d 959 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001). “See § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (1999) ("The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance .”
Tobkin v. Jarboe, 695 So. 2d 1257 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997). “The court considered section 770.07, which states: Cause of action, time of accrual.”
Comins v. Vanvoorhis, 135 So. 3d 545 (Fla. 5th DCA 2014). “Indeed, the Florida Supreme Court has held that section 770.07, which establishes the point in time when a cause of action for defamation accrues, applies to both media and private individual defendants.”
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