Kathy Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc., and Larry C. Flynt, Lfp, Inc., Flynt Distributing Company, Inc., and David L. Kahn

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Seeking to avoid the Pyrrhic victory of an unsatisfied libel judgment, appellee Kathy Keeton has tried to enforce her New Hampshire federal judgment in New York State. New York’s judgment enforcement techniques are complemented by procedures designed to facilitate the registration of foreign, or out-of-state, judgments, for New York will, with specified exceptions, simply recognize a foreign judgment as its own, rather than require a separate action on the judgment.

Here, appellants challenge Keeton’s attempt to register and enforce in New York her judgment for…