"Libel Tourism" Bill Endorsed

by IPT News
The Investigative Project on Terrorism
February 20, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/193/libel-tourism-bill-endorsed

Excerpt:

 The Washington Post on Friday endorsed legislation to protect American writers and publishers from "libel tourism," the recent practice of bringing libel suits in foreign courts where the burdens of proof are far more lax than here at home.

The Post editorial noted testimony earlier this week at a House subcommittee hearing about Rachel Ehrenfeld's unfortunate experience in British courts. Neither she nor her accuser live in England and her book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It, wasn't even published there. But because copies of the book were bought via the Internet, a court granted jurisdiction and damages to one of the subjects of Ehrenfeld's book.

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