A judgment in any jurisdiction for or against the plaintiff upon the substantive merits of any action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance as described in Section 1 [41-7-1 NMSA 1978] shall bar any other action for damages by the same plaintiff against the same defendant founded upon the same publication or exhibition or utterance.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40-27-31, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 50, § 2; 1978 Comp., § 30-34-2, recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 41-7-2.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.