Sunday, 01 August 2010




The Senate passed it last week. House of Representatives approval is almost a formality. Whereupon, America will have a law in place that prohibits US courts from enforcing foreign libel judgments if they don't match First Amendment freedoms. "In other words," says the New York Times, "if a British court finds that an American author has committed libel but has not conducted the trial with the same legal standards as an American court, then the judgment against the author would be void in the...
Full Story: The Observer



 

RSS