ACD in the Media

During the Cold War, the joke went that an American explained to a Russian that, in the U.S., anyone could stand in front of the White House and criticize the president. The Russian shrugged and said anyone could stand at the gates of the Kremlin and … [Read more...] about The New Presumption Of Transparency

The digital age has made mountains of information available. It should make important reporting more available, too, but because of some recent developments in libel law, that is not necessarily the case. While freedom of the press remains strong in … [Read more...] about Protect Freedom Of Information

US politicians try to protect citizens from British court, claiming foreigners use law to bring expensive defamation cases  American politicians are pushing through free speech laws to protect US citizens from libel rulings in British courts that … [Read more...] about Uk Faces Backlash Over ‘Libel Tourists’

Libel tourists flock to the U.K. to avoid public scrutiny. Simon Singh is an award-winning British science writer. In the best-selling "Fermat's Enigma," for example, he described the 350-year quest for the proof of Pierre de Fermat's last theorem, … [Read more...] about Britain Chills Free Speech

American law, with its strong First Amendment traditions, makes it hard to sue authors for libel. To get around these protections, book subjects have been suing American authors in England, where the libel law is much less writer-friendly. Two states … [Read more...] about Libel Tourism

PARIS - The American Civil Liberties Union may not often see eye-to-eye with the American Center for Democracy, a research group with neoconservative credentials. But the two organizations are united on at least one thing: their distaste for British … [Read more...] about Unlikely Allies Say U.K. Libel Laws Limit Speech

It has become fashionable in Washington to speak of "false choices" - "the false choice between our values and our security" or "the false choice between our liberties and our national defense," for example. Apparently, we don't need to make these … [Read more...] about Combating Libel Lawfare

Another bill would strike statute of limitations for survivor lawsuits following homicides. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday recommended passage of a bill that would make it more difficult for foreign plaintiffs to collect on libel judgments … [Read more...] about Libel Tourism Bill Passed By [NJ] Senate Committee

(05-14) 18:12 PDT -- Legislation designed to thwart "libel tourism" - the practice of trying to silence one's critics by suing them in England, where defamation is easier to prove than in the United States - cleared the state Senate without a … [Read more...] about ‘Libel Tourism’ Bill Passes State Senate