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Le Conseil d'État is a French institution whose decisions can be broken (sadly) by European courts. I think Google is not fighting for its reputation, but if t

• p4bl0 13y ago
  > Le Conseil d'État is a French institution whose decisions can be broken (sadly) by European courts. It's not as simple as that. From what I have understood, there is a precise hierarchy of courts and the Conseil d'État is at the top of the administrative courts hierarchy. The only way to appeal their decision is to go one step higher which would be the European Court of Human Rights, and I don't see how Google could find a valid reason to get there with this issue.
  • masklinn 13y ago
    With piles of money involved it's possible that the ECHR would find for a reduction of citizen's rights, but AFAIK that'd be a first. Usually they go the other way around, and pretty seriously so.
• belorn 13y ago
  They would have had argued to the Conseil d'État in order to get the sentence suspended while the European court decide on the matter. Its not enough to just send in an appeal to the European court, as sovereignty still matters. This chain of events happened during the pirate bay trial, in which Swedish courts did not approve of suspending sentences while waiting for an European court decision. The suspects still sent in their request, but any decision the European could had made would be after the fact.
• camus2 13y ago
  > I think Google is not fighting for its reputation, but if they pay now they will open the door to more fines from over countries. that's more like it, if they cave now, there is a huge list of states that dream about taxing Google very hard. Google wont pay.