Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has rejected a claim for damages from two traders acting as intermediaries for sports betting operators, who had sought compensation on the basis that the regulations at the time constituted a breach of European law.
The claims were filed against two towns in Nordrhein-Westphalia and the federal state itself, with the plaintiffs claiming that the monopoly enforced by the State Commission on Gambling between 2006 and 2007 was not permitted under [...]
