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Mcmillan V. Mcmillan: Choice Of Law In A Sinkhole, Doug R. Rendleman
Mcmillan V. Mcmillan: Choice Of Law In A Sinkhole, Doug R. Rendleman
Doug Rendleman
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Collecting A Libel Tourist's Defamation Judgment?, Doug Rendleman
Collecting A Libel Tourist's Defamation Judgment?, Doug Rendleman
Doug Rendleman
A libelplaintiffsued an American defendant in aforeign nation where he took advantage ofplaintiff-favoring defamation Law to obtain a heftyjudgment. He brings this judgment to the defendant's state in the United States to collect from her bank account. The defendant 's state's court could not have entered the plaint /ffs judgment because offirst-Amendment doctrines that stem from New York Times v. Sullivan. How should the U.S. court respond to the "libel tourist" and his judgment? This succinct Article summarizes the tangled tale that emerges. Invoking the First Amendment under a public-policy exception to comity, U.S. courts have rejectedforeign-nation defamation judgments. State …