The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 770
DEFAMATION

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F.S. 770.08

770.08 Limitation on recovery of damages.—No person shall have more than one choice of venue for damages for libel founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05, and upon his or her election in any one of his or her choices of venue, then the person shall be bound to recover there all damages allowed him or her.

History.—s. 4, ch. 67-52; s. 1179, ch. 97-102.

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Amendments to 770.08

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 770.08

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 770.08.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

In PHAR- MOR, INC., 290 B.R. 319 (Bankr. N.D. Ohio 2003)

. . . total 2001 taxes in the amount of Sixty-Seven Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy and 08/100 Dollars ($67,-770.08 . . .

E. v., 92 T.C. 1027 (T.C. 1989)

. . . 204.73 09/10/82 02/04/82 509.835 5,541.90 5,404.25 137.65 09/10/82 08/28/81 392.896 4,270.77 5,040.85 $(770.08 . . .

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 . . .