Somportex Ltd. v. Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corp., 185–186 |
special relationship privilege, 46 |
duty, interest test, 46 |
Speech Act of 2010, 251–262 |
as applied to Desai case, 256 |
attorney’s fee provision, 253–255 |
deterrent to comity, 255 |
burden of proof for comity, 253 |
choice of forum, 266–268 |
conflicts of law, 303 |
due process requirement, 253 |
equivalence as opposed to comparability, 262 |
European Convention on Human Rights, 261 |
exaggerated need for legislation, 271 |
First Amendment equivalence, 255 |
First Amendment policy objectives as test for recognition, 259–260 |
full text, 305–310 |
intended not to be punitive, 252 |
interpretation, 257–262 |
ISPs, 253 |
long-arm provisions, 254 |
New York Times case, 260 |
opportunity for comity, 257 |
partial text of comity provisions, 252–253 |
pre-empts state libel tourism law, 251 |
requiring re-litigation in US, 256 |
similar to New York Libel Tourism legislation, 252 |
Speech Act of 2010 (continued) |
state defamation laws, 261 |
Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, 253 |
US legal hodgepodge as obstacle to recognition, 270 |
St. Amant v. Thompson, 22–24 |
reckless disregard of the truth, 22–24 |
subjective belief without any fact checking as good faith, 24 |
Telnikoff v. Matusevitch, 199–204 |
comity, 268–269 |
English litigation history, 200–201 |
US litigation history, 199–200 |
US Speech Act, 257–258 |
Theophanous v. Herald & Weekly Times, Ltd., 141–143 |
constitutional and common law privilege, 142–143 |
high point of Australian free speech privilege, 143 |
reversed by Lange v. Australian Broadcasting Corp., 143 |
truth |
defence at common law, 5 |
free speech theoryfree speech theory129. See also John Stuart Mill, 105, 105 |
irrelevance under Reynolds reasonable journalism, 222 |
Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act |
adopted by major commercial states, 182 |
California statute, 183 |