[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

[Geoffrey Plourde]

First, I doubt that the FBI would investigate a barratry complaint (Counselors, does such a provision exist in the US Code?) If they did, the courts would be reluctant to actually hear such a case because the person being prosecuted would actually have to be present to answer to the charges. I highly suspect that the UK would snicker at any such extradition request. 

Second, IANAL but have never heard of someone being stopped for civil judgments at the airport. If they attempt to file a criminal case for copyright infringement, you would have a problem.






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From: George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:29:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/11 George Herbert <george.herbert at 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.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com

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