No love for Google from the EU’s second-highest court on Valentine’s Day, as one judge said a $2.6 billion antitrust fine was “a small amount of cash” for the search engine juggernaut.
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It was a challenging day for Google as a judge on the EU’s second-highest court had terse words for the Silicon Valley giant about its anticompetitive behavior.
Read moreWithout commenting on whether funds were in fact misused, an EU court ruled Thursday that bias tainted a six-figure decision against political supporters of Brexit activist Nigel Farage.
Read moreLeaving the colored grid aside, the European General Court took its second stab at another puzzle involving Rubik’s Cube on Thursday and confirmed the cancellation of its trademark.
Read moreThe European General Court dismissed a trademark action by Vespa scooter maker Piaggio on Tuesday, the China-made Zhejiang scooter is not similar enough to the Vespa to confuse consumers.
Read moreWading a second time into a fight over a citizen’s initiative to protect national and linguistic minorities and their cultural heritages, the EU’s general court ruled Tuesday that the European Commission had the authority to register the initiative and gave sufficient reasons for doing so.
Read moreEurope’s second highest court upheld a penalty against Fiat on Tuesday for artificially reducing its tax burden by using a capital figure that represents just 10% of Fiat’s total equity.
Read moreThe European General Court ruled Tuesday that HSBC does not have to pay a $37 million fine brought by antitrust regulators who found that the London-based bank and several other financial institutions worked together to manipulate prices on the EU futures market.
Read moreLifting a $33 million tax penalty against Starbucks, Europe’s second highest court annulled a decision Tuesday that said the Netherlands gave the coffee giant illegal aid.
Read moreTech giant Apple continued its fight Wednesday against a demand for $14 billion in back taxes from the European Union, arguing alongside Ireland in the European General Court that EU regulations on corporate tax are “untethered from reality.”
Read moreTech giant Apple and Ireland took their fight over a $14 billion tax bill from the European Union to the European General Court on Tuesday, the first volley in the EU’s war on sweetheart tax deals for multinational corporations.
Read moreThe European General Court dismissed appeals Friday from Sony and other computer-equipment companies that were fined for fixing the prices of optical disk drives.
Read moreA trade group for the plastics industry failed to persuade the European General Court on Thursday that the industrial chemical BPA should not be classified as toxic.
Read moreThe European General Court annulled two years of sanctions Thursday against former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych and one of his sons.
Read moreAdidas is not entitled to trademark three parallel stripes in any direction, Europe’s General Court ruled Wednesday, calling the design “inherently devoid of distinctive character” across the EU.
Read moreThe European General Court threw out a lawsuit Thursday by a former EU health commissioner who resigned when he was implicated in a bribery scheme with tobacco lobbyists.
Read moreTossing a suit over investment losses tied to the restructuring of Greek public debt, the European General Court ruled Thursday that the stability of the Euro-zone banking system is a legitimate public interest.
Read moreBacking a new tax on Poland’s retail sector, the European General Court ruled Thursday that EU regulators were wrong to classify the measure as state aid.
Read moreA Portuguese man acted in bad faith by trying to trademark the name of Brazil’s Neymar while also claiming that he did not grasp the soccer player’s stardom, the European General Court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe European General Court dismissed Lufthansa’s lawsuit against the European Commission for lack of standing Friday, finding the German airline did not offer evidence that state aid to the Frankfurt-Hahn airport unfairly benefited Ryanair or hurt Lufthansa’s market share.
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