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Home » US Law » 2019 US Virgin Islands Code » Title 14 - Crimes » Chapter 59 - Libel and Slander » § 1177. True reports of official proceedings as libel
  • (a) A prosecution for libel cannot be maintained against any person for the publication of a fair and true report of any judicial, legislative or other public and official proceedings or for any heading of the report which is a fair and true headnote of the statement published.

  • (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to any libel contained in any other matter added by any person concerned in the publication; or in the report of anything said or done at the time and place of the public and official proceedings which was not a part thereof.