Bloomberg Law
May 3, 2018, 11:02 AM UTC

Facebook Feud Set for EU Court as Dublin Judge Resists Delay Bid

• Irish judge rejects bid to stay case pending a Facebook appeal • Dispute pits privacy activist against Facebook over data

Facebook Inc. lost a bid to prevent another feud with Austrian privacy Max Schrems activist over trans-Atlantic data transfers from spilling over to the European Union’s highest court.

The Irish High Court May 2 rejected Facebook’s attempt to delay the dispute from reaching the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The Irish tribunal in October had already decided to seek the EU judges’ view over whether data-transfer clauses used by the social network and thousands of other companies may ...

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