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€100M for not allowing the EnelX app (electric car charging infrastructure in Italy) with Android Auto is a significant fine. Even if €100M on its own is not much to Google, it is still an expensive precedent for similar cases in the future.

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In Italy, the judgements are not a source of law, so this ruling does not mean that a similar situation would have the same outcome in the future.

I think some degree of jurisprudence is always present in any legal system. It's the natural law.

Jurisprudence doesn’t necessarily imply a legal system where a legal precedent carries outsize weight, so I don’t quite get what you mean by it being a natural law.

I don't think the word you're looking for is jurisprudence, which is defined as "legal theory" or "legal philosophy" as opposed to legal practice.

Yes, but in practice precedence has some informal weight even in civil law systems.

(And in the same spirit, precedence can be overridden relatively easily in a common law system, too, the judge just has to find an obscure aspect of the new case that allows her to argue that the old cases don't apply.)

So, in reality, virtually identical to a common-law (US/UK-style) legal system.

Doesn’t it at least constitue a data point for future cases, where Google won’t just be able to say “we just don’t hinder competitors, you must be mistaken” and we also get vetted documents on their inner workings and processes that will make the discovery process faster on other cases.

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