Persistence of Vision

As New York lawmakers scramble to pass the Libel Terrorism Protection Act to protect authors from spurious foreign libel judgments, Rachel Ehrenfeld--whose own case inspired the law--has suffered another legal blow. In December, the courts rejected her attempt to insulate herself from a British libel ruling, citing jurisdictional reasons. And on Monday, the appellate court upheld the ruling. Newsday has the details, and notes that the court declined to defer ruling until Rachel's Law had made its way through the New York state legislature.