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€100M for not allowing the EnelX app (electric car charging infrastructure in Italy) with Android Auto is a significant fine. Even if €100M on its own is not mu
by bjohnson225 5y ago
€100M for not allowing the EnelX app (electric car charging infrastructure in Italy) with Android Auto is a significant fine. Even if €100M on its own is not much to Google, it is still an expensive precedent for similar cases in the future.
- varispeed 5y agoIn Italy, the judgements are not a source of law, so this ruling does not mean that a similar situation would have the same outcome in the future.
- TZubiri 5y agoI think some degree of jurisprudence is always present in any legal system. It's the natural law.
- whoisburbansky 5y agoJurisprudence doesn’t necessarily imply a legal system where a legal precedent carries outsize weight, so I don’t quite get what you mean by it being a natural law.
- 1_player 5y agoI don't think the word you're looking for is jurisprudence, which is defined as "legal theory" or "legal philosophy" as opposed to legal practice.
- eru 5y agoYes, but in practice precedence has some informal weight even in civil law systems. (And in the same spirit, precedence can be overridden relatively easily in a common law system, too, the judge just has to find an obscure aspect of the new case that allows her to argue that the old cases don't apply.)
- mdeck_ 5y agoSo, in reality, virtually identical to a common-law (US/UK-style) legal system.
- hrktb 5y agoDoesn’t it at least constitue a data point for future cases, where Google won’t just be able to say “we just don’t hinder competitors, you must be mistaken” and we also get vetted documents on their inner workings and processes that will make the discovery process faster on other cases.