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Obama signs 'libel tourism' law
US President Obama has signed into law the Speech Act, a law that prohibits federal courts from recognizing or enforcing foreign libel judgments in the US that do not pass the US Constitution's First...
Bloggers win libel suit over literary agency
Victoria Strauss and Ann Crispin, who run the Writer Beware blog, have won a libel case bought against them by literary agency The Literary Agency Group....
'Libel tourism' bill in US Congress
A bill aimed at preventing 'libel tourism' has been introduced to the US Congress.
Briscoe wins ugly libel case
Author Constance Briscoe has won a libel case bought against her by her mother over her 'misery memoir' Ugly.
Grisham libel suit dismissed
A US Federal Court judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against best-selling author John Grisham and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrongful conviction of two men in a 1982 mur...
PEN sets up 'libel watch' in the UK
Free-speech group PEN has set up a 'libel dossier' in the UK, and is asking publishers to alert it whenever they are asked to change a book on legal advice.
US free speech groups speak out against 'libel tourism'
Nineteen US-based free-speech organisations have been lobbying the Senate to pass a bill that will prohibit foreign libel judgments from being enforced in the US.
NY approves 'libel tourism' bill
New York State has a new law that will make it harder for 'libel tourists' to threaten authors and publishers with foreign libel suits.
US court rejects 'libel tourism' case
The New York Court of Appeals has denied a bid by author Rachel Ehrenfeld to have a US court declare a libel judgment issued against her in the UK unenforceable in America.
Bid to outlaw 'libel tourism'
Author Rachel Ehrenfeld has launched a groundbreaking legal case in the US against one of the richest men in the world, the Saudi investment banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, in an attempt to prevent 'l...
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