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Sacha Baron Cohen Wins 'Ali G' Lawsuit With Help of Indian Legal Team

By Bruce Carton

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The story of the ill-fated lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen by his ex-girlfriend, who claimed he defamed her in one of his "Da Ali G Show" interviews, was already pretty interesting by itself. No stranger to the legal troubles that go hand-in-hand with his particular style of film-making, Cohen won the lawsuit a year ago (in what the THR, Esq. blog called "a victory for the free speech rights of comedians who wish to make fun of ex-girlfriends in the midst of calling Gore Vidal a world-famous hairstylist and questioning whether Denzel Washington lives in George Washington's former Mount Vernon home.") The case is back in the news this week because on Tuesday, a California appeals court affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the case against Cohen and the show's distributor, the U.K.'s Channel Four Television. Perhaps just as interesting, however, is the fact that Channel Four has been very publicly defending the case using U.S. law-trained attorneys in India. The Law Without Borders blog reported here that after the case was initially dismissed in April 2009, Channel Four issued a statement that it was "happy not only with the result in the 'Ali G' case, but also with...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).