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· 12/31/1942

People v. Bearden

Citations

  • 265 A.D. 975
  • 39 N.Y.S.2d 607
  • 1942 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6798

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  • holding republication exception to statute of limitations does not apply if defendant has no knowledge of and plays no decision-making role in the republication
  • explaining the multiple publication rule and its evolution to the single publication rule in New York, the first state in the country to adopt the single publication rule
  • The editor discovered that allegations in the hardback book were false but failed to correct the book prior to publication in a paperback edition.
  • The editor discovered that allegations in the hardback book were false but failed to correct the book prior to publication in a paperback edition.
  • The single publication rule recognizes the “realities of a society in which mass distribution and nationwide communication now are norms.”

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