Index on Censorship » congress http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » congress http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org US Congress passes libel tourism bill http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/07/us-congress-libel-tourism/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/07/us-congress-libel-tourism/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:02:08 +0000 Index on Censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=14607 The US Congress has approved a bill aimed at protecting US writers from libel tourists using English courts to pursue defamation claims. The SPEECH (Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage) Act now goes to President Obama to be signed into law. Watch Congressman Steve Cohen speak on the bill: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1wjBFIl66w Read the text of the bill here

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]]> The US Congress has approved a bill aimed at protecting US writers from libel tourists using English courts to pursue defamation claims. The SPEECH (Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage) Act now goes to President Obama to be signed into law.

Watch Congressman Steve Cohen speak on the bill:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1wjBFIl66w

Read the text of the bill here

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