Individual voting records of Supreme Court justices are a matter of public controversy, but dissenting opinions within the ECJ are neither publicised nor explained.These differences, plus the fact that the ECJ is based in sleepy Luxembourg, have meant that the court's role in defining and expanding EU powers has rarely attracted the same attention as Supreme Court rulings.
Searches made on Google's services in Europe using peoples' names includes a section at the bottom with the phrase "Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe", and a link to a page explaining the ruling by the European court of justice (ECJ) in May 2014.
Images captured on a household surveillance camera could breach data-protection rules if the person filmed was on a public footpath when videoed, the European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled.
Morbidly obese people could be given disability status in the workplace if a ruling at the European court of justice (ECJ) goes as expected this week.
Rather, they sought the ECJ's views, which they would then take into account when passing their final judgment, based as before on whether the policy flouted Germany's basic law.The preliminary ruling from the ECJ goes some way to meeting the German court's concerns.
Then she increased the pressure by threatening to take the French government to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The warrant offers only limited rights to mount an appeal against extradition.When Labour ministers sought concessions to answer concerns about the ECJ having a final say over such measures, other governments led by France and Germany retaliated by offering Britain an alternative: a one-off, time-limited right to opt out of all the crime-fighting measures or sign up to all of them for ever.
If a plaintiff can show that a member state, or the EU itself, is violating the charter in the way it applies the law, then it is open to a challenge before the ECJ.
The ECJ's ruling in this case, which may be its most important ever, could fundamentally affect the balance of power between the centre and the member countries.Vassilios Skouris, a Greek professor who took over as president of the court last October, says that it is not new for the ECJ to be at the cutting-edge of defining the powers of the EU.
They would amend the EU's treaties with two goals: to remove some political discretion in the first step towards subjecting national governments to tighter fiscal monitoring and sanctions; and to enshrine balanced-budget rules in national constitutions, with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) given powers to rule on whether they comply with European guidelines.
But the markets heaved a collective sigh of relief as they noted that in an unprecedented move the court had referred crucial points in the case to the ECJ.
