The Volokh Conspiracy - Defamation Case Lingers for 18 Years:

From the homeland of Franz Kafka, evidence that modern litigation dragging on forever is not just an American phenomenon:

[I]n the early days of the Velvet Revolution, in November 1989, three students of architecture described their Communist professor as an arrogant careerist and demagogue.... [I]n 1991 [the professor] took the students to court for defamation of character, and demanded an apology. They refused.

Eighteen years later, and the case is still languishing in the Czech courts. On Tuesday the Constitutional Court in Brno heard its third complaint in the case, and for the third time ruled in the students' favour.... The lower court will now resume hearing the case....

Thanks to Ted Schuerzinger for the pointer.

	[Eugene Volokh, August 6, 2009 at 1:05pm] Trackbacks Defamation Case Lingers for 18 Years: From the homeland of Franz Kafka, evidence that modern litigation dragging on forever is not just an American phenomenon: [I]n the early days of the Velvet Revolution, in November 1989, three students of architecture described their Communist professor as an arrogant careerist and demagogue.... [I]n 1991 [the professor] took the students to court for defamation of character, and demanded an apology. They refused. Eighteen years later, and the case is still languishing in the Czech courts. On Tuesday the Constitutional Court in Brno heard its third complaint in the case, and for the third time ruled in the students' favour.... The lower court will now resume hearing the case.... Thanks to Ted Schuerzinger for the pointer.