Vienna Court Rejects Europe vs. Facebook Class Action
The class-action suit filed against Facebook in Vienna by Austrian law student Max Schrems and his Europe Versus Facebook group has hit a roadblock.
The class-action suit filed against Facebook in Vienna by Austrian law student Max Schrems and his Europe Versus Facebook group has hit a roadblock.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a court in Vienna rejected the lawsuit on the grounds that it had no jurisdiction over the case.
According to the Journal, the court ruled that Schrems could not sue Facebook because he has used the social network for professional reasons, and that the class action is invalid in Austria.
Schrems said he will appeal to a higher regional court, and his lawyer, Wolfram Proksch, told the Journal:
This finding by the court is really very strange—unfortunately, it seems like the court wanted to forward this hot potato to the higher courts.
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