Court Overturns Decision Protecting U.S. Speech Against French Law - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court decision that protected Yahoo! Inc. from liability under a French law banning online content that is constitutionally protected in the United States. After a French court attempted to impose fines on Yahoo! -- a US-based company -- for hosting content that is unlawful in France, a lower court ruled that enforcing those fines would violate the First Amendment, a position CDT supported. Although most of the Appeals Court judges agreed that the case raised serious First Amendment concerns, the court nevertheless decided that it was too early for Yahoo! to assert its free speech arguments. January 13, 2006
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