RS 14:49 Qualified privilege - Louisiana Statutes

§49.  Qualified privilege

A qualified privilege exists and actual malice must be proved, regardless of whether the publication is true or false, in the following situations:

(1)  Where the publication or expression is a fair and true report of any judicial, legislative, or other public or official proceeding, or of any statement, speech, argument, or debate in the course of the same.  

(2)  Where the publication or expression is a comment made in the reasonable belief of its truth, upon,

(a)  The conduct of a person in respect to public affairs; or

(b)  A thing which the proprietor thereof offers or explains to the public.  

(3)  Where the publication or expression is made to a person interested in the communication, by one who is also interested or who stands in such a relation to the former as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing his motive innocent.  

(4)  Where the publication or expression is made by an attorney or party in a judicial proceeding.