Defamation, Libel Tourism and the SPEECH Act of 2010:  The First Amendment Colliding with the Common Law
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Somportex Ltd. v. Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corp., 185–186

Spears, Britney, 122, 290

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

Harte-Hanks Communications v. Connaughton, 260, 269, 297

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

Reynolds, 258–261, 297

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

criticism of, 202–204, 225

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

Time, Inc. v. Hill, 210, 283, 292

Truman, Harry, 113, 120

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