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U.S. Court Rejects 'Net Libel Case

Posted by timothy on from the offending-the-warden dept.

RodgerDodger writes "In contrast to the Australian courts, the US courts have decided that you can't sue for defamation in your own jurisdiction. In both, the key factor was the targetted location; the Australian court ruled that the article in question there was targetted internationally, while the US court ruled that the article in question was local. It remains open (in the US) if a nationally or internationally targetted article could be sued from outisde the immediate jurisdiction."

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  1. Similar by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This sounds remarkably similar to the recent Pavlovich juris-my-diction case where the California Supreme Court declined to give the movie industry the right of venue shopping (as Slashdot reported not too long ago.

    I hope this is part of a larger legal trend toward stopping venue shopping by plaintiffs. It'd go a long way toward reducing the sheer vast bulk of frivolous lawsuits burdening the US court system these days.