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Re: Stop the presses -- Anti-terrorism bill not that bad
At 07:38 PM 8/6/96 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>which such a claim was made. As for the UK laws, there is
>practically no defense against a libel claim that one can
>file in court. There is absolutely no basis on which to
>justify them. This is why the Singapore government uses them
>as a form of censorship.
There was a recent US appeals court decision in which an attempt to enforce
a UK libel judgment was rejected on First Amendment grounds. The court
refused to allow the application of UK law here.
DCF