Law

What is an “accidental American”, in legal terms? ( www.ifcreview.com )

The linked article: ...

Utility bill uses every color combination of text on colored background, gray text, etc.… a shit-show for scanning. Is this accessbility compliant? ( web.archive.org )

A utility bill came on paper using: ...

EU: “You cannot be charged a fee for paying by card, but you can be charged a fee for paying in cash.” No worries about marginlising Americans who face discrimination by banks. ( www.fiserv.com )

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Polish train maker Newag sues the hackers who exposed its anti-repair tricks on the basis of “unlawful competition”. Isn’t it Newag who violates competition law? I’m confused. ( www.ifixit.com )

I saw the video where the Dragon Sector hacker team presented their findings whereby a Polish train had a kill switch to block repairs by anyone other than the manufacturer. ...

Case law wanted for kill switches in Europe

Does anyone know of any EU case law for anti-repair situations? I am most interested in a legal theory that kill switches can be treated as anti-competitive, in principle on the basis of monopolisation of the repair business.

(🇧🇪 Belgium) 📧 The wisdom of email being treated as registered letter ( europe.pub )

I use very unreliable email forwarding services for protection and control. Rationale: ...

(Belgium) ❝Only banked people may submit a case to the appeals court❞. No bank account? → fair trial ineligable ( lemmy.sdf.org )

(crossposted from !exclusive_public_resources) ...

How to find EU explanetory memorandums ( fabianbohnenberger.com )

The linked article suggests looking at the “explanetory memorandum” of an EU law to do a deeper dive on it. Searching for it is a shit-show. The page showing a particular law shows the full text and a large selection of language and format (pdf, text, html), which is good, but nowhere on these pages is there a link to an ...

(Belgium/anti-trust) Are individual consumers expected (or even permitted) to sue anti-competitive corporations?

A consumer protection agency advises individual consumers to take legal action against an anti-competitive enterprise. This seems really off to me. Is the advice good? I would generally expect either the government to prosecute anti-competitive corporations or perhaps other corporations who are damaged by the anti-competitive ...

speaking unofficial languages in court

I am getting quite mixed results with speaking English in court. ...

Struggling to find legal advice in Germany.

Hello. I've been trying to find genuine legal advice in Berlin for a month now, but every single lawyer I have emailed has refused to take the case, citing their lack of capacity. Or, I simply do not hear back. ...

German translation of an EU directive apparently differs from the English, possibly leading to German ATMs not giving receipts? ( europe.pub )

Investigation needed.. but apparently the English and German versions of a directive materially differ. And it might explain why many German ATMs do not give receipts. ...

It is now illegal in Belgium for lawyers to accept cash payments, according to a lawyer. Thus, no due process for unbanked people? Do other member states have this rule? ( fedia.io )

(crossposted from !brussels) ...

Has the EU started blocking some demographics of people (e.g. Tor users) from access to EU law? ( eur-lex.europa.eu )

Various hosts in the *.europa.eu domain have block Tor, and some do not. Tor users have always had access to legal statutes, which IMO is the most important most basic info to have access to. Today this host suddenly demands execution of several 3rd-party JavaScript programs. And if you give up and let that shit run, it just ...

Why a good-samaritan forward-thinking EU member state cannot give people a right to repair

The EU’s ecodesign law (reg 2024/1781) has “Article 3 - Free movement” which has paragraphs like this: ...

Why you don’t have a right to repair your washer in the EU; Also, law only requires washer/dryer makers to make their software available for 10 years. WTF

From EU regulation 2019/2023 (emphasis mine): ...

The Flixbus chatbot claims nothing it says is legally binding (but a court found otherwise in Canada, ruling against an airline) ( webchat.flixbus.com )