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18 Dec 2017, 12:29 pm
French Economy Minster Bruno Le Maire filed suit against Amazon Monday for unfair competitive practices. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 4:54 am
[JURIST] The Appeals Court of Paris [official website, in French] Friday struck down the CNE, contrat nouvelles embauches [authorizing ordinance, in French; Wikipedia backgrounder] as a violation of international and basic French labor standards, dealing a setback to efforts by French President Nicolas Sarkozy [official profile; BBC profile] to open the French labor market. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 2:37 pm
"The plan at this time is to remove as many people off the Teddy Roosevelt as we can, understanding that we have to leave a certain amount of folks on-board to perform normal watch-standing duties that keep the ship running," Rear Admiral John Menoni, commander for the Marianas region, told reporters in Guam on Wednesday. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 9:41 am
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Size Matters, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 10:33 am
The French National Assembly [official website, in French] on Wednesday approved a bill [text, PDF, in French] that would strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship rights. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 8:01 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein [official profile] announced [press release] Thursday that UN workers were informed on August 30 that a teenage girl in the Central African Republic (CAR) [BBC backgrounder] was allegedly sexually abused by a French soldier last year. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 2:08 pm
[JURIST] The Paris Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a 2008 judgment against the online auction house eBay [corporate website] for its role in the sale of counterfeit goods but significantly reduced the amount of damages eBay has to pay. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 12:23 pm
(credit: Spencer E Holtaway) Facebook will have to face a censorship lawsuit over a 19th century oil painting of a woman's genitalia, a Paris appeals court ruled on Friday. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 8:30 am
The French retailer Casino said on Tuesday it would sell its 55 percent stake in the food and restaurant supply retailer Smart & Final to help it meet its debt reduction goals. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 9:03 am
[JURIST] A French court ruled Friday that Google [corporate website] violated French copyright law through its book-scanning initiative [Google Books website]. [read post]
19 Dec 2015, 11:02 am
[JURIST] The French Human Rights League and the Collective against Islamophobia [official websites] on Thursday joined over 100 organizations to issue a statement [petition, in French] asking the French government to lift the state of emergency. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 1:55 am
The impact of the use of social media in the workplace has regularly given rise to controversies and debates as how this subject is to be handled by a company’s management. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 10:04 am
[JURIST] The French Commercial Tribunal [official website, in French] in Paris ruled Tuesday that Google Maps [corporate website] is anti-competitive because it is offered as a free service. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 5:19 am
The lower house of the French parliament on Tuesday voted 415-127 to approve an anti-terrorism bill [materials, in French] that would increase police surveillance powers and enable authorities to close places of worship easier that are suspected of being a threat to national security. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 11:02 am
[JURIST] French judges may drop charges against two police officers who chased three teen boys into a power substation where two of the teens died after being electrocuted, according to Friday reports [AP report]. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 9:01 am
[JURIST] The Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris [official website, in French] on Friday ordered [judgment in PDF, in French] French Internet service providers to block access to Copwatch Nord Paris I-D-F, a website designed to allow civilians to post videos of alleged police misconduct. [read post]
23 Dec 2019, 9:53 am
The French Competition Authority has announced it imposed a sanction of €150 million on Google for abusing its dominant position in search advertising. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 7:56 am
French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel was appointed [press release] as Head of the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism on Monday to collect evidence concerning persons involved in Syrian war crimes over the last six years. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 12:31 pm
[JURIST] A French court began proceedings in absentia Wednesday against 14 former Chilean officials over the disappearance of four French citizens during the regime of Augusto Pinochet [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 8:18 am
As reported in Time, last week French prosecutors began presenting evidence in the fraud trial of the Church of Scientology. [read post]
