Garren v. Southland Corporation

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• relying on the Restatement (First) of Torts when determining whether “the word ‘communicated’ and the word ‘publication’” in Georgia’s libel statute were “broad enough to 29 include the reading aloud of a written defamation”
• “[T]he fact that the defamatory words are spoken with the intention that they be embodied forthwith in a physical form makes the speaking of them not only the publication of a slander, but a libel as well provided they subsequently are so embodied.” (quoting Restatement (First

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