The US Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Meta Platforms Inc., leaving it to face a lawsuit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders about the data-harvesting scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Investors claim the company, then known as Facebook, inflated share prices by failing to adequately disclose the risk that its user … Read more
Public Concerns and the Constitutional Implications of Weakening Judicial Review in Brazil The recent Proposal for Constitutional Amendment No. 28/2024 (PEC 28/2024), currently under consideration in the Chamber of Deputies, aims to modify constitutional review by allowing Congress to suspend certain decisions of the Supreme Federal Court in specific cases. In light of the widespread … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider a bid by Meta’s Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading them about the misuse of its user data. The justices will hear arguments in Facebook’s appeal of a lower court’s decision allowing … Read more
Image from judgment 4 Ob 97/24d The Robber Hotzenplotz is the title of a book series for children, written by Ottfried Preußler. The figure of robber Hotzenplotz is characterized on the book cover by a huge black hat, a red band and a feather. A political party incorporated the face of the Austrian city’s … Read more
Three Opinions of Vlas AG at the Dutch Supreme Court dated 5 April 2024 but published today discuss issues of applicable law in competition follow-on cases. See also my earlier posts on Air Cargo and Palink. CJEU authority cited includes Concurrence, Nintendo, Tibor Trans, CDC, flyLAL. ECLI:NL:PHR:2024:561 is the Palink case in the Truck Cartel: … Read more
