Class-Action Suit vs. Facebook Referred to Another Court in Vienna, Austria
The class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook last week by Austrian law student Max Schrems and his Europe Versus Facebook group, which reached the plaintiff-imposed limit of 25,000 participants earlier this week, now just needs to find a court, as the commercial court of Vienna rejected the suit and referred it to the city’s regional court, PCWorld reported.
The class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook last week by Austrian law student Max Schrems and his Europe Versus Facebook group, which reached the plaintiff-imposed limit of 25,000 participants earlier this week, now just needs to find a court, as the commercial court of Vienna rejected the suit and referred it to the city’s regional court, PCWorld reported.
A spokesman for the commercial court called the move a procedural decision and said, as reported by PCWorld:
It is a claim that doesn’t belong at the commercial court, but belongs at the regional court for civil cases.
A spokeswoman for the regional court told PCWorld the judge who was assigned the case will make a decision “as quickly as possible” on whether or not to accept it, cautioning that the court is in the middle of its summer holiday period.
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