@boh said:
Only in the UK AFAIK. In the rest of Europe, the role of the court is only to decide whether an action was in accordance with written law or not, not to make up new laws (that's what the parliament is for), or disregard laws if they feel like it. But they do interpret the law though, so I guess the difference is not all that great.
In France (can you know guess from where country I am from), like half the law are cancelled because they are against the constitution or the EU treaty or the human right or shit like that. IIRC it's the same in any european country. So, yes, they don't strictly do new law (do the US court do that ?), but yes they could have cancelled the law if it was against Google's right.
Since Google is not an human, I wouldn't bet it's considered as having unviolable right.