WorldECR | EU ruling allows full confiscation of proceeds
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has ruled that the EU ban on brokering military equipment to Russia allows for the full confiscation of proceeds, even if the goods never enter the EU. The 10 September judgment also confirmed the Court’s power to interpret EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (“CFSP”) decisions that serve as the basis for national sanctions. The case revolves around the Romanian airline Neves 77 Solutions SRL, which brokered a deal involving 32 radio equipment, 20 of which were manufactured in Russia. Neves received nearly 3 million euros in fees for these services from SFTE Spetstechnoexport, despite being warned in 2019 that their brokering activities were prohibited by EU sanctions due to Russia's actions in Ukraine. The Romanian authorities imposed a fine of 30,000 Romanian lei (about 6,000 euros) and confiscated the funds received. The Romanian court sought clarification from the EU Court of Justice whether the ban applied even if the military…
Texas Supreme Court overturns Sarah Milburn/Honda seat belt ruling
Sarah Milburn was driving an Uber Honda Odyssey when the car crashed, leaving a Texas woman a quadriplegic. July 8, 2024 — The Texas Supreme Court has vacated a $26 million verdict against Honda in the case of Sarah Milburn, who became a quadriplegic in a collision with a 2011 Honda Odyssey minivan driven by Uber driver Arian Yusufzai. On the night of November 14, 2015, Sarah Milburn, then 23, went to a bar in Dallas with five friends. Shortly after midnight, they decided to go to another bar to meet up with other friends. According to court documents, one member of the gang called an Uber and Uber driver Arian Yousafzai picked them up in a 2011 Honda Odyssey. Sarah Milburn was sitting in the third-row middle seat, but the seat's removable anchor points were not locked and the webbing was retracted into the ceiling-mounted retractor. After Milburn buckled up, he pulled the seat belt down from the ceiling,…
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