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Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre le Racisme et L’Antisemitisme
Facts
not stated in casebook excerpt, but case is an appeal of the judgment by a French court in LICRA et UEJF v. Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! appealed on grounds that compliance interfered with U.S. constitutional free speech guarantees.] Synopsis of Rule of Law Principles of comity do not require the United States to permit foreign regulation of speech by a United States resident within the United States on the basis that Internet users in that nation can access such speech. Facts [Facts not stated in casebook excerpt, but case is an appeal of the judgment by a French court in LICRA et UEJF v. Yahoo! Inc. After that judgment, Yahoo! Inc. posted on Yahoo.fr a warning to French citizens that searches might lead them to items that violate French law. Yahoo! Inc. also prohibited the auctioning of items on its website that promoted racist groups, excepting government-issue stamps and coins, and establishing a more permissive stance on items of personal expressions, such as books or films. Yahoo! did not try to technologically prevent French citizens from accessing websites auctioning any item.]
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