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New York Passes Law Against "Libel Tourists"

[Times-UK] Politicians in New York have acted to protect the state's writers and publishers from so-called libel tourism after an English libel judgment went against an American author. The legislation was introduced after the New York Court of Appeals ruled in December that the state's laws did not protect Rachel Ehrenfeld, an American author, from a possible bid by a Saudi Arabian businessman to enforce a summary judgment issued by the High Court in London. It would allow New York's courts to declare that a foreign judgment was unenforceable if the courts decided that the libel laws in foreign jurisdictions did not protect freedom of speech and the press to the same extent as the laws in New York and the U.S.
2008-03-06 01:00:00
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