Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4504

  • 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

Any civil action for damages for disparagement of perishable agricultural or aquacultural food products shall be commenced within one year after the cause of action accrues.

Acts 1991, No. 972, §1.