[WikiEN-l] Re: Libel law

Fri Dec 9 16:28:17 UTC 2005

On 09 Dec 2005 16:48:00 +0100, Claus Färber <claus at xn--frber-gra.muc.de> wrote:

> Even worse, noting stops you from suing a US editor in US courts for
> infringment of UK laws, especially UK IP laws. A US judgment based on UK
> substantive law can easily be enforced in the US.

Indeed, US courts will enforce UK law, except when such enforcement
violates US law.  That's why we don't enforce UK libel judgments;
doing so would violate our Constitution.  UK judgments of some other
nature, those we'll enforce.

Kelly