Sunday, 7 December 2008

Infamous No More

One of President Obama’s first actions will be to sign into law a Bill rendering English libel judgements unenforceable in the United States. You might have thought that that been the case since 1776, but apparently not.

Yet if the current judicially imposed privacy law were enacted into the statute law, but with the burden of proof in libel actions placed on the plaintiff, then who could object to that? And why?

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