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Supreme Court dismisses Coca-Cola complaint in imitation design lawsuit

Russia’s Supreme Commercial Court has dismissed the Coca-Cola lawsuit filed to prohibit businessman Oleg Tsirikidze from producing and marketing products that contains design elements similar to those protected by the Coca-Cola copyright, RAPSI learned in the court on Wednesday.

10:35 17.07.2014

Court upholds ruling that Novolipetsk Steel did not hike steel prices

The Supreme Commercial Court has upheld previous appeals court decisions that overruled a Federal Antimonopoly Service decision that implicated Novolipetsk Steel in unjustified transformer steel price hikes for Russian buyers, RAPSI learned in the court on Monday.

16:26 23.06.2014

Supreme commercial court chairman declares highest income - report

Supreme Commercial Court Chairman Anton Ivanov received the highest income among judges in Russia last year, RBC announced on Monday.

13:24 19.05.2014

Russian communists contest against Supreme Court merger - report

The Communist Party group in the State Duma has appealed to the Constitutional Court to terminate the reform under which the Supreme Commercial Court is to be abolished.

16:21 06.05.2014

UK company appeals dismissal of claim against Moscow Circus

UK-based New Art Production (NAP) Limited filed an appeal with the Supreme Commercial Court against the decision to dismiss the lawsuit against Moscow Circus, the court told RAPSI on Friday.

14:57 07.03.2014

Putin signs law merging Supreme Courts

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday has signed a law merging the Supreme Court with the Supreme Commercial Court, the Kremlin press service reports. The law will take effect in 180 days.

15:54 06.02.2014

Russian parliament approves Supreme Court merger

The Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, approved during a session on Wednesday presidential bills aiming to reform the judiciary by merging the Supreme Court with the Supreme Commercial Court.

14:24 29.01.2014

Russian high court dismisses Lithuanian company’s claim against Sberbank

Russia’s Supreme Commercial Court has declined to reconsider a lower courts’ ruling dismissing Lithuanian company Plastima’s lawsuit seeking the recovery of over EUR 2 million from Russia’s largest bank Sberbank.

17:09 10.01.2014

Minority shareholders appeal dismissal of claim against TNK-BP

The Russian Supreme Commercial Court will consider an appeal filed against lower court decisions to dismiss a lawsuit seeking 4.582 billion rubles ($138 million) in damages from TNK-BP Holding (now RN-Holding).

18:46 09.01.2014

Court allowed to take sole real estate as collateral – Supreme Commercial Court

On Tuesday the Supreme Commercial Court overturned a lower court decision that had blocked businesswoman Galina Mokicheva’s insolvency administrator from transferring ownership of her only residence, a property that was used as collateral in a loan taken out by Mokicheva.

15:27 27.11.2013

Five myths about Russian judicial reform

Last June President Vladimir Putin suggested merging the Supreme Court and the Supreme Commercial Court and amending the Constitution to match. Since then the State Duma has received many draft laws relating to the merger and the court’s impending relocation to Saint Petersburg. However, some lawyers are vigorously speaking out against any such reform.

18:52 26.11.2013

Russian Duma on its way approving courts merger bill

The State Duma on Tuesday passed in the first reading a bill proposing a merger between Russia's Supreme Court and the Supreme Commercial Court, and amending the Constitution accordingly.

18:01 12.11.2013

Seven judges of Russian Supreme Commercial Court resign amid courts merger

Seven judges of the Supreme Commercial Court have filed resignation applications with the qualification board.

11:43 10.10.2013

Russia's tax system should boost business - Supreme Commercial Court chairman

The Russian tax system is in need of a reshuffle aimed at the development of small- and mid-sized businesses, according to Anton Ivanov, Chairman of the Supreme Commercial Court.

13:40 20.09.2013

Ruling to invalidate former YUKOS subsidiary's loan contracts not to be reconsidered

The Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation has upheld a previous court ruling quashing four Yukos Capital S.a.r.l. agreements on providing Yuganskneftegaz $340 million in loans.

18:03 01.08.2013

Supreme Commercial Court to hear Kerch Strait oil spill case on October 8

The Supreme Commercial Court will meet on October 8 to hear a request to review the lower courts' rulings on collecting 503.17 million rubles ($15.4 million) in damages for the 2007 oil spill in the Kerch Strait.

13:03 15.07.2013

Rusal subsidiary's claim on wholesale energy market rules dismissed

The Supreme Commercial Court has rejected an appeal by Rusal's Krasnoyarsk aluminum smelter on the rules of the wholesale energy market. The applicant requested the court to invalidate two paragraphs of the wholesale energy market regulations.

14:43 12.07.2013

Collection of $15mln of additional taxes from Russian Authors Society suspended

The Supreme Commercial Court has suspended the collection of over 500 million rubles (over $15 million) of additional taxes, fines and penalties from the Russian Authors Society (RAO) at its request until the end of the review proceedings.

16:54 08.07.2013

Adidas appeals rejection of lawsuit to ban retailer from using brand

The Supreme Commercial Court has registered an appeal from Adidas AG against a previous ruling which rejected its lawsuit to ban the Lenta hypermarket chain from using the Adidas trademark on the store's goods.

12:37 08.07.2013

Russian Authors Society appeals $17 mln tax claim at Supreme Commercial Court

The Russian Authors Society has filed an appeal with the Supreme Commercial Court against a lower court ruling that backed around 90% of a 560.102 million rubles ($17.1 million) tax claim.

17:21 01.07.2013