Back in August of 2009, I wrote an article, European Union E-Discovery Rules: What Every Corporate Litigator Must Know, describing the privacy laws in the European Union and the significant implications for litigation based in the United States. At the end of the article, I predicted that the EU would further shore up their privacy laws as business between U.S. and EU … [Read more...]
Why the European Union Should Allow Class Action Lawsuits
American innovation spawned the personal computer, the internet and the Ipod. All radically changed the way the world accessed information. Under a proposed EU Directive, another American innovation—the class action lawsuit—may radically change the way EU consumers' access justice. Under the proposal presented by the EU Commission, consumers who suffer … [Read more...]
European Union E-Discovery Rules: What Every Corporate Litigator Must Know
To allay fears concerning the handling of users’ personal information, European regulators have established operating guidelines for social-networking web sites to ensure they comply with the region's privacy laws. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, EU Lays Out Web Privacy Rules, the guidelines were established to shore up EU data privacy laws already in … [Read more...]