Arguments in Yahoo Nazi memorabilia case to be re-heard

A US Appeal Court has said it will rehear some of the arguments in a 5-year-old lawsuit against Yahoo by two French groups, which are trying to ban the sale of Nazi-related items on any internet site viewable in France. The ruling did not go into detail but both sides will be required to argue their cases again in front of an 11-judge panel, probably this spring. In 2000  the French Union of Jewish Students and the International Anti-Racism and Anti-Semitism League sued Yahoo and won a French court order requiring the company to block internet users in France from auctions selling Nazi memorabilia. For failing to take down the offensive items, French courts began levying fines on Yahoo of more than $13,000 per day starting in February 2001. Yahoo theoretically owes more than $5 million today.