http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906151738dowjonesdjonline00057

My memory is horrible, but I think we discussed this legislation in class or it was mentioned in our readings. At any rate, here is a great, readable article about the U.S. passing laws to protect bloggers and other writers from foreign defamation judgments. The trend is dubbed "Libel tourism" and it is a relatively recent trend to use defamation laws in foreign countries to bring lawsuits against American journalists, authors and publishers, because other countries tend to have less stringent libel laws than the U.S.