Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4503 – Cause of action; recovery of damages
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4503
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Disparagement: means dissemination to the public in any manner of any false information that the disseminator knows or should have known to be false, and which states or implies that a perishable agricultural or aquacultural food product is not safe for consumption by the consuming public. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4502
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Perishable agricultural or aquacultural food product: means any food product of agriculture or aquaculture which is sold or distributed in a form that will perish or decay beyond marketability within a period of time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4502
- Person: means an individual or any legal or commercial entity, including a corporation, business trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
Any producer of perishable agricultural or aquacultural food products who suffers damage as a result of another person‘s disparagement of any such perishable agricultural or aquacultural food product has a cause of action for damages, and for any other appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Acts 1991, No. 972, §1.