Hon. Ellen Corbett California State Senate State Capitol, Room 5108 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: Senate Bill 320 Dear Senator Corbett, The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) wishes to join in sponsoring your bill addressing … [Read more...] about Letter To Senator Ellen Corbett (D-10) Re: Senate Bill 320
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Support: Sb 320 Anti-Libel Tourism Act, CA-Peter Scheer, CFAC Executive Director
Honorable Ellen Corbett California State Senate State Capitol, Room 5108 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: Support: SB 320 Anti-Libel Tourism Act Dear Sen. Corbett, The California First Amendment Coalition is pleased to support your SB 320, which would … [Read more...] about Support: Sb 320 Anti-Libel Tourism Act, CA-Peter Scheer, CFAC Executive Director
Letter To California State Senator Ellen Corbett – Sb 320: Support
Honorable Ellen Corbett California State Senate State Capitol, Room 5108 Sacramento, CA 95814 SB 320 : SUPPORT Dear Senator Corbett, Californians Aware supports your SB 320, which would prohibit state courts from recognizing a defamation judgment … [Read more...] about Letter To California State Senator Ellen Corbett – Sb 320: Support
Statement At Hearing On California Libel Tourism Act (Senate Bill 320)
Thank you, Senator Corbett, for initiating this important bill, and thank you, members of the Committee, for holding this hearing on Libel Tourism. California is the world capital of the entertainment industry, which provides major revenues to the … [Read more...] about Statement At Hearing On California Libel Tourism Act (Senate Bill 320)
The Terror Spectator: Tourist Trap
Meet Khalid bin Mahfouz, libel tourist. This rich Saudi didn't like what Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote about him in her 2003 book Funding Terrorism, so he sued her. She heads a small New York City-based think tank dedicated to uncovering the sources of … [Read more...] about The Terror Spectator: Tourist Trap
Beating The Press In The Globalized Age
Sometimes it seems that globalization, like some medieval king, has given the world many more unintended offspring than rightful heirs. Miseries are globalized, too. Case in point: The U.S. practice known among lawyers as forum shopping. That's when … [Read more...] about Beating The Press In The Globalized Age
Libel Over There — And Over Here
Some public figures are using England's plaintiff-friendly laws to go after books they don't like. New York and Illinois have come to the defense of U.S. writers. Congress and California should too. April 9, 2009 Before the American Revolution, a … [Read more...] about Libel Over There — And Over Here
Does Iran Harbor Osama Bin Laden?
Posted April 2, 2009 | 01:40 PM (EST) Osama Bin Laden is in Iran, asserts Alan Howell Parrot, the director of The Union for the Conservation of Raptors (UCR - www.savethefalcons.org). In fact, he has been stating this, offering evidence of Bin … [Read more...] about Does Iran Harbor Osama Bin Laden?
Free Speech, Celebrities And Ugly Truths
British courts' plaintiff-friendly libel system strikes at U.S. protections. After taking in a libel law panel the other night in Beverly Hills, I'm ready to stipulate: Nicolas Cage did not steal a Chihuahua. Britney Spears did not make a sex tape. … [Read more...] about Free Speech, Celebrities And Ugly Truths
How I Fight Libel Tourism* (I Was A Victim Of Libel Tourism)
*Title should have been: How I Fight Libel Tourism. Sitting at my desk on 23 January 2004, I was interrupted by an email from a law firm in London. It was a letter threatening to sue me for libel in a British court, for statements made in my book, … [Read more...] about How I Fight Libel Tourism* (I Was A Victim Of Libel Tourism)