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DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The ability of firms such as Facebook to easily transfer Europeans’ data to the United States was plunged into legal limbo on Thursday when the Irish High Court asked the EU’s top court for a detailed assessment of whether the methods were legal.