The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . Wagner , 629 So.2d at 115 ; accord § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (2012). . . . Thus, section 770.07 is "applicable to all civil litigants, both public and private, in defamation actions . . .
. . . . § 770.07 ("The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance . . . Stat. §§ 770.05, 770.07. . . .
. . . .” § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (2014!). . . .
. . . Indeed, the Florida Supreme Court has held that section 770.07, which establishes the point in time when . . . pointed out that the chapter is broadly titled "Civil Actions for Libel" and that limiting section 770.07 . . .
. . . .” § 770.07, Fla. Stat. (2010). . . .
. . . . § 770.07 (“The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance . . .
. . . . § 770.07 (“The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance . . .
. . . That case concerned a single private defamatory statement and interpretation of section 770.07, Florida . . . The Wagner, Nugent court held section 770.07 applied to all civil litigants and not just media defendants . . .
. . . those general provisions from the chapter on statutes of limitations, defendants also rely on section 770.07 . . . action for damages under section 540.08 is not one of those specific actions encompassed by section 770.07 . . . The kinds of actions covered by section 770.07 are expressly given as “libel or slander, invasion of . . . damages under section 540.08 is not an action for invasion of privacy and thus is not embraced by section 770.07 . . . See § 95.11(3)(p) (“any action not specifically provided for in these statutes”) and § 770.07 (action . . .
. . . The court considered section 770.07, which states: Cause of action, time of accrual. — The cause of action . . . context of this statement makes it clear that the court in Wagner, Nugent was applying only section 770.07 . . .
. . . that the discovery rule was inapplicable to defamation claims because the defamation statute, Section 770.07 . . .
. . . While I find Justice Shaw’s dissent makes good sense, I see no way around the plain language of section 770.07 . . . A cause of action for defamation accrues on publication: 770.07 Cause of action, time of accrual. — The . . . Section 770.07, Fla.Stat. (1987). . . . And while it is logical to provide, as does section 770.07, that a cause of action for defamation against . . .
. . . . § 770.07, however, defendant’s own redistribution of the same Report does not re-commence the two-year . . . Fla.Stat.Ann. § 770.07. . . .
. . . The decision of the trial court to transfer the cause was based on Florida Statutes §§ 47.051 and 770.07 . . . S. § 770.07, F.S.A., (providing that the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued at the time . . . F.S. § 770.07, F.S.A. . . . Respondent contends that proper venue can only lie in Dade County, citing F.S. § 770.07, F.S.A. . . . Ch. 67-52 (F.S. §§ 770.-05 and 770.07, F.S.A.) did not repeal the application of any corporate venue . . .
. . . . §770.07, provides that a cause of action for libel based upon any one edition of a newspaper accrues . . . Therefore as provided in §770.07 and §47.051 this action for libel against defendant, the Miami Herald . . .