February 22, 2018
Entries
Association "Union des Etudiants Juifs de France", la "Ligue contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme", le "MRAP" (intervenant volontaire) / Yahoo ! Inc. et Yahoo France
The French court's "Yahoo France" ruling
Organizations dedicated to combatting anti-semitism sued Yahoo in the Paris tribunal because of, among other things, Nazi memorabilia available through Yahoo's auction site. On May 22, 2000 ordered that Yahoo:
Yahoo Inc. v. LICRA
US court ruling on enforceability of French judgment
This case is the US follow-on litigation to a French court’s order , in 2000, for US search engine and portal Yahoo to restrict access to Nazi memorabilia auctions and
Yildirim v. Turkey
Yildirim was an academic who hosted his work on Google’s Sites platform. Another unidentified person hosted anti-Ataturk content on Google Sites. The Turkish criminal court ordered the anti-Ataturk content blocked,
Cengiz and Others v. Turkey
A Turkish criminal court ordered that national ISPs block access to YouTube, because of videos critical of Ataturk. Applicants, all university academics and regular YouTube users, claimed that the block
eDate Advertising GmbH v X and Olivier Martinez and Robert Martinez v MGN Limited
This CJEU ruling applied an internal EU regulation, the Brussels regulation, to adjudicate the relative jurisdiction and powers of EU Member States in cases involving personality rights. It combined two
Pammer v. Karl Schlütter GmbH & Co and Hotel Alpenhof v. Mr. Heller
In this case, the CJEU applied the internal EU Brussels I regulation to assess the relative jurisdiction and authority of EU Member State courts in two cases involving contracts for
Pinckney v Mediatech
This case considered the relative jurisdiction of EU Member States under the Brussels I convention in a copyright case involving online CD sales. It concluded that mere site accessibility, rather
Dow Jones v. Gutnick
The Wall Street Journal / Barron’s online published allegations of criminal activity by Gutnick, and Australian citizen and resident. The article was accessible to paying online subscribers, some of whom
SPEECH Act
Securing the Protection of Our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, 28 U.S. Code § 4101
This statute was unanimously passed by the US Congress in 2010 in response to libel tourism concerns, and in particular in response to UK lawsuits against an American author whose