Trout Point Lodge, Limited v. Doug Handshoe

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, under SPEECH Act, that Canadian defamation judgment could not be enforced in the United States
• holding that the SPEECH Act precluded a court in the United States from enforcing a defamation-based default judgment issued by a Canadian court because, inter alia, law applied by Canadian court provided less protection of speech and press than the First Amendment
• affirming federal 1 district court’s refusal to enforce a defamation-based default judgment obtained against a blogger 2 in Canada
• describing the difference between the prongs as that \one [is] focused on the law applied by the foreign forum and one [is]focused on the facts the parties presented in the foreign proceeding\
• “The task of statutory interpretation begins and, if possible, ends with the language of the statute.”
• ‘[A] default judgment does not equate to a general admission or an absolute confession.” (quotation and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).