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The General Court largely confirms the Commission’s decision finding that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine (Case T-604/18 – Google Android)

The European Union’s General Court (General Court) has rejected Google’s appeal against the Commission’s decision of July 18th 2018 by which the technological giant was sanctioned with a fine of €4.343 million for abusing its dominant position, in relation to the obligation that Google imposed on the manufacturers of mobile devices to preinstall the general…

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The Court of Justice of the European Union declares contrary to EU law the system of the State’s liability to pay damages provided in Laws 39/2015 and 40/2015 (CJEU of 28 June 2022. Case C-278/20).

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of 28 June 2022 has declared that the Spanish legislation on liability in the event of damage arising from the application of rules that are contrary to European Union law (EU law) does not comply with the principle of effectiveness. As a result,…

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The General Court of the European Union upholds the €2.42 billion penalty imposed on Google for the abuse of a dominant position (Case T-612/17 Google and Alphabet v Commission – Google Shopping).

The General Court of the European Union (“GC”) has dismissed the appeal brought by tech giant Google against the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision fining it €2.42 billion, in 2017, for abusing its dominant position that it holds in the market for internet search services by favouring its product comparison service to the detriment of its…

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The Spanish Supreme Court (TS) found the State, as legislator, to be financially liable in relation to the imposition of an administrative penalty in application of a legal provision that was subsequently found to be contrary to European Union law (Supreme Court decision of March 10, 2021)

The Catalan Government (Generalitat) imposed a fine of 20,001 Euros for infringement of the State Law on the Regulation of Retail Trade (LOCM) on a company belonging to the MEDIA MARKT group. Specifically, it was considered that the infringement provided for in Article 65.c) LOCM in relation to Article 14 of the same law, relating…

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The coercive detention of persons for the purpose of enjoining them to adopt measures to improve ambient air quality can be ordered only if a national legal basis which is sufficiently accessible, precise and foreseeable in its application exists to that end and if the detention is proportionate.

Preliminary ruling referred by the Higher Administrative Court of Bavaria to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), to seek if the national courts have the faculty to impose coercive detentions to national authorities who refuse to comply with a judicial decision that compel them to run the obligations imposed by the European Union law….