California Acts to Stop Libel Tourism

by Rachel Ehrenfeld
The Huffington Post
May 5, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/307/california-acts-to-stop-libel-tourism

Excerpt:

Afflicted with one hazard of globalization -- the spread of the swine flu epidemic -- California's state Senate took measures to protect its citizens from another less deadly, yet terrorizing hazard -- the chilling effects on their freedom of expression by foreign libel judgments. 

California is the world capital of the entertainment industry, which provides major revenues to the state. To protect it, Senator Ellen Corbett (D), the Chair of the Judiciary Committee, initiated California's Anti-Libel Tourism Act (SB 320), which on April 28, 2009 unanimously passed in the State Senate.

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