Law & Justice

CoE Creates Protocol on Foreign Terrorist Fighters

October 16, 2015

At an upcoming conference, the Council of Europe ("CoE") will open for signature by member countries a protocol that seeks to harmonize legislation in European countries and improve information-sharing in order to deal with foreign terrorist fighters.
MEP Seeks Stronger Framework to Replace "Safe Harbor"

October 15, 2015

Member of the European Parliament ("MEP") Sophie in ‘t Veld has called on the European Commission to use the Court of Justice of the EU's invalidation of the US-EU "Safe Harbor" data framework as an opportunity to impose stronger restrictions on transatlantic data transfers.
Epstein Criticizes ECJ Data Decision

October 14, 2015

Professor Richard Epstein of New York University School of Law argues that the Court of Justice of the EU's ("ECJ") invalidation of the EU-US Safe Harbor data-transfer framework was flawed, as the ECJ did not consider the reliance interests of thousands of companies and pointed to "no evidence of concrete abuse."
ECJ Decision Complicates Company Employment Policies

October 14, 2015

Attorneys from Littler Mendelson have outlined the complications caused by the Court of Justice of the EU's invalidation of the EU-US "Safe Harbor" data transfer framework to multinational companies that store data on their employees in the US.
ECJ Official Approves Britain's Benefits Test

October 09, 2015

Advocate-General of the Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ") Pedro Cruz Villalón has advised the ECJ to uphold the UK's "right-to-reside" test, which restricts the availability of certain social benefits to migrants from other EU member countries, finding that the test is justified to protect the UK budget.
Official Advises ECJ to Overturn German Refugee Restriction

October 09, 2015

Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ") Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón has advised the ECJ to strike down a German rule requiring refugees in receipt of social security benefits to take up residence in a particular location in the country.
Newspapers Seek EU-Mandated Payments from Google

October 08, 2015

Politico reports that European newspaper companies are lobbying the EU to reform its copyright regime to require Google to compensate newspapers when its search engine reproduces snippets of their articles.
Slovakia Pursues Challenge to EU Relocation Plan

October 02, 2015

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced that his Government will pursue a legal challenge to a plan, recently agreed by EU interior ministers, for mandatory resettlement of 120,000 people claiming asylum in Europe.
EU Clamps Down on National Asylum Rules

September 30, 2015

Following agreement among EU countries to the mandatory resettlement of 120,000 migrants, the European Commission has announced that it has launched 40 infringement decisions against EU member states accusing them of failing to communicate the transposition of various EU directives on asylum seekers into their national laws.
ECJ Official: US-EU Data Protection Deal Is Invalid

September 24, 2015

Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ") Yves Bot, whose decisions are not final but tend to be followed by the ECJ, has found that the data protection agreement between the US and the EU is invalid because it does too little to protect Europeans' privacy, casting doubt upon online data transfers between the US and EU.