Ruling Could Extend Reach of Libel Law

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Australian Court Ruling Could Extend Reach of Libel Law
The Recorder
Brenda Sandburg <mailto:bsandburg@therecorder.com>

The Recorder <http://www.law.com/ca>
12-11-2002
(on law.com)

In a precedent-setting case, Australia's highest court ruled Tuesday that
publishers can be sued for defamation in whatever country an individual's
reputation allegedly has been harmed. An Australian businessman can now
sue Dow Jones & Co. over an article published in the U.S. and posted on
the Internet. Attorneys expressed concern about the breadth of the
decision -- the first ruling from a nation's high court on Internet
jurisdiction.

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