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You don't have a link to that law?
this will hafta do & any law course would accept it as a valid source.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IF11291.pdf
& FYI - here's a little diddy you may not know... i remember when this happened & i do believe carol burnett set the precedent for that sleazy rag mag.
BURNETT v. NATIONAL ENQUIRER INC (1983)
Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 2, California.
Carol BURNETT, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NATIONAL ENQUIRER, INC., Defendant and Appellant.
Civ. 66447.
Decided: July 18, 1983
Williams & Connolly by John G. Kester, Harold Ungar, Washington, D.C., Selvin & Weiner by Paul P. Selvin, Los Angeles, for defendant and appellant. Barry B. Langberg, Stephen S. Monroe, Paul S. Ablon, Richard P. Towne, Hayes & Hume, Beverly Hills, for plaintiff and respondent. Jack C. Landau, Judy D. Lynch, Pierson, Ball & Dowd by J. Laurent Scharff, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae.
On March 2, 1976, appellant caused to appear in its weekly publication, the National Enquirer, a “gossip column” headlined “Carol Burnett and Henry K. in Row,” wherein a four-sentence item specified in its entirety that:
“In a Washington restaurant, a boisterous Carol Burnett had a loud argument with another diner, Henry Kissinger. Then she traipsed around the place offering everyone a bite of her dessert. But Carol really raised eyebrows when she accidentally knocked a glass of wine over one diner and started giggling instead of apologizing. The guy wasn't amused and ‘accidentally’ spilled a glass of water over Carol's dress.”
Maintaining the item was entirely false and libelous,1 an attorney for Ms. Burnett, by telegram the same day and by letter one week later, demanded its correction or retraction “within the time and in the manner provided for in Section 48(a) of the Civil Code of the State of California,” failing which suit would be brought by his client [respondent herein], a well known actress, comedienne and show-business personality.
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https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1840156.html