Baidu, China win dismissal of U.S. censorship lawsuit

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Baidu Inc on Monday won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit brought by pro-democracy activists who claimed that China's largest search engine operator, as well as the country itself, should be punished for censoring them over the Internet. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan said dismissal was proper because the defendants had not been properly served with court papers, and China had invoked an international treaty in claiming that service would infringe its sovereignty. The case had been brought in May 2011 by eight New York writers and video producers. ...

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