Idaho Code
Chapter 7 - LIBEL AND SLANDER
Section 6-710 - PRIVILEGED BROADCASTS.

6-710. PRIVILEGED BROADCASTS. A privileged broadcast which shall not be considered as libelous, slanderous, or defamatory is one made:
(1) In the proper discharge of an official duty.
(2) In any broadcast of or any statement made in any legislative or judicial proceeding.
(3) By fair and true report, without malice of a judicial, legislative, or other public official proceedings, or of anything said in the course thereof, or of a charge or complaint made by any person to a public official, upon which a warrant shall have been issued or an arrest made.

History:
[6-710, added 1963, ch. 158, sec. 5, p. 459.]

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Title 6 - ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES

Chapter 7 - LIBEL AND SLANDER

Section 6-701 - DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS UTTERED ON RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTS IN BEHALF OF CANDIDATES — LIABILITY.

Section 6-702 - UNIFORM SINGLE PUBLICATION ACT — ONE CAUSE OF ACTION FOR LIBEL OR SLANDER — RECOVERY.

Section 6-703 - JUDGMENT A BAR TO SECOND ACTION.

Section 6-704 - INTERPRETATION OF ACT.

Section 6-705 - TITLE OF ACT.

Section 6-706 - RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTING STATION OR NETWORK OF STATIONS — PROOF OF MALICE.

Section 6-707 - RIGHT OF STATION TO REQUIRE SUBMISSION OF MATTER INTENDED TO BE BROADCAST.

Section 6-708 - LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS UPON IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY — FAILURE TO EXERCISE DUE CARE.

Section 6-709 - LIABILITY IN CASE OF JOINT OPERATION.

Section 6-710 - PRIVILEGED BROADCASTS.

Section 6-711 - MALICE NOT INFERRED FROM BROADCAST.

Section 6-712 - RETRACTION BY NEWSPAPER, RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTING STATION OR NETWORK OF STATIONS — LIMIT OF RECOVERY.

Section 6-713 - PRIVILEGED PUBLICATION IN NEWSPAPER DEFINED.

Section 6-714 - MALICE NOT INFERRED FROM PUBLICATION.