Following the judgment rendered by the 3rd Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on October 2 2018, Claudia Pechstein filed a request to refer the matter to the Grand Chamber of the ECHR. Pechstein’s request was dismissed on February 4th 2019 by a Panel...
The US Supreme Court has just rendered its decision in the case HENRY SCHEIN, INC., ET AL. v. ARCHER & WHITE SALES, INC. The opinion of the unanimous Court has been delivered by justice Brett Kavanaugh. The US Supreme Court has affirmed that arbitrators should...
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights rendered its judgment in the case of Molla Sali v. Greece (application no. 20452/14). The Cour held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European...
On November 13, 2018, the European Court of Justice rendered a judgment in Case C-310/17, finding that the taste of a food product is not eligible for copyright protection under Directive 2001/29/EC. A summary is available via this...
On October 10th 2018, the German Federal Court of Justice rendered its decision XII ZB 231/18, finding that a mother’s wife is not automatically legal co-parent of a newborn child. In this case, a female same-sex couple married following the legalization of...
On October 9, 2018, the Hague Court of Appeal has upheld a judgment from June 24 2015 ordering the Dutch government to accelerate carbon emissions cuts. Appeal court judges ruled that the severity and scope of the climate crisis demanded greenhouse gas reductions of...
