SPEECH Act

Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act

Long title	An Act to amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit recognition and enforcement of foreign defamation judgments and certain foreign judgments against the providers of interactive computer services
Nicknames	SPEECH Act
Enacted by	the 111th United States Congress
Effective	August 10, 2010
Citations
Public law	Pub. L. 111–223 (text) (PDF)
Statutes at Large	124 Stat. 2380–2384
Codification
U.S.C. sections created	28 U.S.C. §§ 4101–4105
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 2765 by Steve Cohen (D–TN) on June 9, 2009 Committee consideration by House Judiciary, Senate Judiciary Passed the House on June 15, 2009 (voice vote) Passed the Senate on July 19, 2010 (unanimous consent) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on July 27, 2010 (voice vote) Signed into law by President Barack Obama on August 10, 2010

The Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act is a 2010 federal statutory law in the United States that makes foreign libel judgments unenforceable in U.S. courts, unless either the foreign legislation applied offers at least as much protection as the U.S. First Amendment (concerning freedom of speech), or the defendant would have been found liable even if the case had been heard under U.S. law.

The act was passed by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama.