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La. Rev. Stat. § 14:47 (2026)
Repealed by Acts 2021, No. 60, §1, eff. August 1, 2021.
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SUBPART E. DEFAMATION (REPEALED)
§47. Repealed by Acts 2021, No. 60, §1, eff. August 1, 2021.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 27
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1957–2022 · leading case: Gugliuzza v. KCMC, INC., 606 So. 2d 790 (La. 1992).
Gugliuzza v. KCMC, INC., 606 So. 2d 790 (La. 1992). “2315 and LRS 14:47." Relying primarily on this court's recent decision of Clomon v.”
Voisine v. United States, 579 U.S. 686 (2016). “At oral argument the Government could not identify any other fundamental constitutional right that a person could lose forever by a single conviction for an infraction punishable only by a fine.”
Gugliuzza v. KCMC, INC., 593 So. 2d 845 (La. Ct. App. 1992). “2315 and LRS 14:47. Defamation is the malicious ...”
Hornot v. Cardenas, 968 So. 2d 789 (La. Ct. App. 2007). “R.S. 14:47 are also applicable to civil defamation cases.”
State v. Defley, 395 So. 2d 759 (La. 1981). “, is charged with defamation contrary to LSA-R.S. 14:47. Affidavits specify that Defley violated Section 2 of the statute [1] by maliciously *761 referring to Ronald E.”
State v. Garrison, 154 So. 2d 400 (La. 1963). “The defendant, Jim Garrison, appeals from his conviction of the offense of Defamation 1 (LSA-R.S. 14:47) and his sentence to pay a fine of $1,000.”
Royce McLin v. Jason Ard, 611 F. App'x 806 (5th Cir. 2015). “R.S. § 14:47, which is Louisiana’s criminal defamation statute.”
State v. Cox, 167 So. 2d 352 (La. 1964). “44,287 on the docket of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge with the crime of defamation denounced by R.S. 14:47, was tried, convicted, and sentenced by the court to be confined in the parish jail for one year, to pay a fine of $3000.”
State v. Snyder, 277 So. 2d 660 (La. 1973). “*664 In his motions to quash, the defendant attacked the constitutionality of LSA-R.S. 14:47, the defamation article. That article provides: "Defamation is the malicious publication or expression in any manner, to anyone other than the party defamed, of anything which tends:…”
State v. Thomas, 447 So. 2d 1053 (La. 1984). “R.S. 14:47, 69); (2) attempted simple burglary (La.”
Cox v. Cashio, 96 So. 2d 872 (La. Ct. App. 1957). “, for the crime of defamation, LSA-R.S. 14:47. The ward constable informed Cox he would have to make a bond of $250, went with him to a friend, who signed said bond with the ward constable.”
State v. Moity, 159 So. 2d 149 (La. 1963). “ation the defendant contended it was fatally defective in that it (1) contains no allegations of fact that are defamatory and does not, therefore, charge a crime; (2) is based on a statement attributed to the defendant as having been made in a petition in a legal proceeding and…”
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:47(2) — 4 cases
Gugliuzza v. KCMC, INC., 606 So. 2d 790 (La. 1992). “2315 and LRS 14:47." Relying primarily on this court's recent decision of Clomon v.”
State v. Defley, 395 So. 2d 759 (La. 1981). “, is charged with defamation contrary to LSA-R.S. 14:47. Affidavits specify that Defley violated Section 2 of the statute [1] by maliciously *761 referring to Ronald E.”
Gugliuzza v. KCMC, INC., 593 So. 2d 845 (La. Ct. App. 1992). “2315 and LRS 14:47. Defamation is the malicious ...”
Maurice v. Snell, 632 So. 2d 393 (La. Ct. App. 1994).
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