Search Results for: EU Court
Facebook’s transfer of EU citizen data to US legal, says EU court adviser
December 20th, 2019
Tools used by hundreds of thousands of companies to transfer EU citizens’ data abroad are legal, an adviser to Europe’s top court has ruled, marking a major win for Facebook in a long-running court case. Austrian privacy campaigner and ...
FB suffers legal blow in EU court
October 4th, 2019
Facebook on Wednesday was dealt a major blow in the EU’s top court, which ruled that national courts in Europe can order online platforms to remove defamatory content worldwide. The decision will be seen as a victory for EU ...
EU court backs airlines over bird strike claims worth £11m
May 5th, 2017
Lawyers pursuing claims for flight delays have suffered a rare court defeat in a judgment that could scupper thousands of potential claims. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled today that a collision between an aircraft and ...
EU court pours cold water on Caffè Nero’s trademark bid
November 3rd, 2016
Caffè Nero has failed to secure an EU trademark for its name – because the public may be deceived into thinking the mark relates only to black coffee. In a judgment handed down last week, the EU’s General Court ...
EU Court Overturns Decision to Fine Airlines in Cartel Case
December 17th, 2015
The European Union’s second-highest court has overturned a decision to impose €790 million ($864 million) of fines on more than a dozen airlines including Air France KLM and British Airways for operating an airfreight cartel. In a statement published ...
EU Court Says Data-Transfer Pact With U.S. Violates Privacy
October 7th, 2015
Decision will affect about 4,500 companies that move, store personal data The European Union’s highest court on Tuesday struck down a trans-Atlantic pact used by thousands of companies to transfer Europeans’ personal information to the U.S., throwing into jeopardy ...
EU court to decide on tax-free trading of bitcoin
July 30th, 2014
Tax-free trading of bitcoin is on legal questioning at the European Union’s top court following Swedish authorities request to extend existing levies to virtual currencies. The EU Court of Justice must decide if transactions between virtual and traditional currencies ...
EU Court voids sanctions on former Syrian minister
July 3rd, 2014
A European Union court has voided sanctions imposed by the 28-nation bloc on Syria’s former economy minister. The EU’s General Court said Thursday a travel ban and asset freeze imposed on Mohamad Nedal Alchaar cannot be upheld only on ...
Paris wins legal battle against Airbnb hosts in European high court
September 23rd, 2020
The European Court of Justice has upheld a French law that gives cities and towns the right to block short-term property rentals, a decision that may open the way for European cities to take action against Airbnb and similar ...
Irish High court freezes probe into Facebook’s EU-U.S. data flows
September 15th, 2020
Ireland’s High Court on Monday (14 September) temporarily froze a probe by Facebook’s lead European Union regulator that threatened to halt the U.S. social media giant’s transatlantic data flows, a court spokesman said. Facebook had sought a judicial review ...
