Montana § 27-1-820 Content Of Correction

Montana Statutes

§ 27-1-820 — Content Of Correction

Montana § 27-1-820

Title 27CIVIL LIABILITY, REMEDIES, AND LIMITATIONS

Ch. 1AVAILABILITY OF REMEDIES -- LIABILITY

Part 8Libel and Slander

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Mont. Code Ann. § 27-1-820 (2026).

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27-1-820 . Content of correction. To the extent that the true facts are, with reasonable diligence, ascertainable with definiteness and certainty, only a retraction constitutes a correction; otherwise the publication or broadcast of the defamed person's statement of the true facts or so much of the statement that is not defamatory of another, scurrilous, or otherwise improper for publication or broadcast, published or broadcast as the defamed person's statement, constitutes a correction within the meaning of 27-1-818 through 27-1-821 .

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27-1-820 . Content of correction. To the extent that the true facts are, with reasonable diligence, ascertainable with definiteness and certainty, only a retraction constitutes a correction; otherwise the publication or broadcast of the defamed person's statement of the true facts or so much of the statement that is not defamatory of another, scurrilous, or otherwise improper for publication or broadcast, published or broadcast as the defamed person's statement, constitutes a correction within the meaning of 27-1-818 through 27-1-821 .