http://acrlog.org/2007/08/22/so-sue-me-round-two/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:48:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://acrlog.org/2007/08/22/so-sue-me-round-two/comment-page-1/#comment-38123 Take Two Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:09:41 +0000 http://acrlblog.org/2007/08/22/so-sue-me-round-two/#comment-38123 [...] Today’s New York Times has an opinion piece about the use of UK’s plaintiff-friendly libel laws to suppress publication of books in the United States. The authors, professors of law and of Jewish Studies at Emory, call attention to the way Cambridge caved when a billionaire Saudi banker objected to passages in Alms for Jihad and call for legislation that will prevent US courts from enforcing libel judgments issued by foreign courts - what they call “libel tourism.” We raised this issue a couple of times here. [...] [...] Today’s New York Times has an opinion piece about the use of UK’s plaintiff-friendly libel laws to suppress publication of books in the United States. The authors, professors of law and of Jewish Studies at Emory, call attention to the way Cambridge caved when a billionaire Saudi banker objected to passages in Alms for Jihad and call for legislation that will prevent US courts from enforcing libel judgments issued by foreign courts – what they call “libel tourism.” We raised this issue a couple of times here. [...]

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