{"data":{"id":"us-mt/27-1-804","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"27-1-804","heading":"What communications are privileged.","body":"A privileged publication is one made:\n(1) in the proper discharge of an official duty;\n(2) in any legislative or judicial proceeding or in any other official proceeding authorized by law;\n(3) in a communication without malice to a person interested therein by one who is also interested or by one who stands in such relation to the person interested as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing the motive for the communication innocent or who is requested by the person interested to give the information;\n(4) by a fair and true report without malice of a judicial, legislative, or other public official proceeding or of anything said in the course thereof.","path":["TITLE 27. CIVIL LIABILITY, REMEDIES, AND LIMITATIONS","CHAPTER 1. AVAILABILITY OF REMEDIES -- LIABILITY","Part 8. Libel and Slander"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0270/chapter_0010/part_0080/section_0040/0270-0010-0080-0040.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:50:26Z","sha256":"7199387892820b781ded14a8a392ea6a7ece6dd4eb0ca2725fc377559a8bbcae","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/27-1-803","next":"us-mt/27-1-805"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}