Gliner filed this proceeding under 28 USC 1782 to obtain discovery in California for use in his defamation action in Great Britain. Specifically, he sought the name and contact information of the author of the article that allegedly defamed him as well as the name and contact information of the operator of the website on which the article was published. This decision holds that the district court erred in dismissing Gliner’s petition on First Amendment grounds since there was no evidence to show that the author and website owner were US citizens or even present in the US nor that the article’s audience was US-based. So there was no support for the district court’s conclusion that the First Amendment even applied. The case was remanded for the district court to consider the factors governing discovery under 28 USC 1782 and explained in Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (2004) 124 S.Ct. 2466.