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urn: urn:us-la:rs:45:1454
citation: "R.S. 45:1454"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 45 › Chapter 11 › Part I"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1964, number: 211, section: 4, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Defamation; burden of proof

If the privilege granted herein is claimed and if, in a suit for damages for defamation, a legal defense of good faith has been asserted by a reporter or by a news media with respect to an issue upon which the reporter alleges to have obtained information from a confidential source, the burden of proof shall be on the reporter or news media to sustain this defense.