Parliament officials were wrong to fine a far-right member, the European General Court ruled Thursday, for saying within the span of a year that migrants were “human garbage” and that that men are intellectually superior to women.
Read moreThree neonicotinoid insecticides will remain banned in Europe, the General Court ruled Thursday, finding the measures justified to protect honeybees.
Read moreThe European General Court chided regulators on Tuesday for shirking formal action in favor of a letter when they found that a French chemical company had not complied with the law.
Read moreThe European General Court threw out a claim for damages Friday by nearly 1,500 people who say the EU’s relaxed attitude on vehicle emissions made them sick.
Read moreReinstating a trademark for Lionel Messi, the European General Court found Thursday that the soccer star is famous enough that his name wouldn’t be confused with a similar-sounding brand.
Read moreIn a pair of identical rulings Tuesday, the European General Court dismissed a challenge by the Polish company Senetic to invalidate Hewlett Packard’s trademark of the abbreviation HP.
Read moreThe European General Court rejected a challenge Tuesday by the French banking group Credit Agricole after the European Central Bank refused to let it let its newly appointed chairman of the board of directors also serve in the executive role of “effective director.”
Read moreA European court shut the door Monday on proponents of an initiative that would ban stem cell research, abortion funding and other activities that involve the destruction of human embryos.
Read moreAs in 2016, Luxembourg-based officials reported Friday, more than 1,600 cases were brought last year before the European Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU.
Read moreEmphatic that provisional legislative proposals are public records too, the European General Court chided EU Parliament on Thursday for denying full access to meetings of what is known as a “trilogue.”
Read moreA Spanish catering company whose name references the Mafia failed Thursday to win trademark approval from the European General Court.
Read moreHaving already sold 10,000 pairs of its signature clog before obtaining registration of its design in the EU, Crocs failed Wednesday to overturn an invalidity judgment at the European General Court.
Read moreEU trademark authorities failed to justify their rejection of a proposed mark consisting of the euro and dollar-sign currency symbols, the European General Court ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe European General Court on Wednesday ordered two members of the European Parliament to repay a combined $744,000, money the men improperly used to staff their local offices.
Read moreThe European General Court dismissed two actions Thursday by a Belgian company that was denied EU trademarks for a shoe design consisting of two parallel stripes. Adidas, whose mark consists of three stripes, challenged the registration on the basis that there was a likelihood of confusion.
Read moreThe European General Court revived claims by Starbucks Tuesday against a coffeehouse whose musical-note signage is accused of infringing the iconic mermaid logo.
Read moreThe state-run utility Electricite de France must return $1.68 billion after the European Commission found that France had improperly waived a tax claim, the European General Court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA decentralized French banking group lost a challenge Wednesday at the European General Court to annul the Central European Bank’s exercise of consolidated prudential supervision.
Read moreCoca-Cola secured a key reversal Thursday in its years-long battle against a Syrian company with a strikingly similar soda logo.
Read moreThe European General Court dismissed an action Tuesday by the Chinese company Xiaomi, which has been barred from registering the trademark “Mi Pad” for electronic devices, given the overlap with Apple’s iPad.
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