On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/11 George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
Technically, the user could just ignore this - a lawsuit in a UK court without relevant jurisdiction, under US law as applies, can be ignored. A default judgement against him might be entered, however, and that might make future travel to Europe difficult.
Would they stop you at the airport to enforce a civil judgement? Criminal, certainly, but I'm not sure about civil.
There has been significant discussion about this, relative to UK libel / slander claims / lawsuits against US authors or speakers. I don't know of anyone who was stopped, but some UK courts have asserted that they could and would if the defendant didn't show up.