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· 7/14/1989

Desai v. Hersh

Citations

  • 719 F. Supp. 670
  • 1989 WL 91655

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the First Amendment applied extraterritorially to preclude a public figure plaintiff from recovering based upon the publication in India of a book involving United States foreign policy
  • “[F]or purposes of suits brought in the United States courts, first amendment protections do not apply to all extraterritorial publications by persons under the protections of the Constitu- tion.”

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Judges: Norgle

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