The Interaction between American and Foreign Libel Law: U.S. Courts Refuse to Enforce English Libel Judgments

In: The international & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 131-165

Abstract

Three Korean women won $75,000 in damages in a libel action against the American-owned Newsweek, Inc. in Seoul for publication of a defamatory photo and a caption in the Pacific edition of Newsweek. A Singapore judge awarded former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and two others a §678,000 damage award against the International Herald Tribune, owned by the New York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., for libel relating to an editorial-page column about the "dynastic politics" in the island nation.