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Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at protecting authors and journalists from libel lawsuits filed abroad.
The Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing Tuesday morning voiced support for legislation that would attempt to deter foreign libel lawsuits against American authors and publishers but left the door open to further negotiation about specific legislative action.
The House of Representatives passed a bill over the weekend that would prohibit U.S. courts from enforcing foreign libel judgments that undercut First Amendment principles.
The "libel tourism" bill, as it’s commonly referred to, grants protection to American authors and journalists who are sued for defamation in countries with weaker protection against libel laws, such as the United Kingdom.
New York's legislature on Monday unanimously passed the Libel Terrorism Protection Act, sending the measure – intended to protect American journalists from lawsuits in foreign jurisdictions that do not provide the same free speech protections as the First Amendment – to the desk of Gov. David Patterson.
Hundreds of Iraqi journalists have been forced into exile since the war started five years ago, Reporters without Borders announced in a report released on Wednesday.
Time Magazine asked the Indonesian supreme court to reconsider an earlier ruling that ordered the publication to pay former President Suharto more than $100 million last year, the New York Timesreports.
