Libel Tourism

For a while "libel tourism" was accepted as an occupational hazard for the transnational US media. More recently, however, it has emerged as an insidious way for the rich and famous to do an end-run around the media-friendly US law by suing American media in England. Americans are now fighting back. Six states (California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and Utah) have passed anti-libel tourism law, and Congress considers following suit. Anti-libel tourism law prevents foreign libel judgments from being recognized and enforced in the US if they are incompatible with the First Amendment law.