Electronic seizures : The Court of Cassation decides on the legality of electronic seizures in competition investigation (Schering-Plough)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Court of Cassation, Criminal Division, 20 May 2009, Appeal No. 07-86437, Sté Schering-Plough Facts SCHERING-PLOUGH was visited and seized twice on January 18 and 19, 2007 at its premises, at the request of the DGCCRF, following authorization by order of the Nanterre liberty and detention judge ("JLD"). In the course of these operations, 100,000 documents and computer files were seized on a massive scale, including the full messaging system of eight people. The DGCCRF officers had carried out a global seizure of these files after having identified by key words, using their software "Encase", the presence of documents falling within the scope of judicial