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No supreme court is sovereign in the face of EU law. This is the central argument of the opinion piece published this week in elEconomista by our partner Francisco Javier Ram\u00f3n<\/a>, entitled “El Tribunal Supremo contra Europa: el precio lo pagan los interinos” (“The Supreme Court versus Europe: temporary public employees pay the price”).<\/p>\n

His starting point is the long-running disagreement between the Court of Justice of the European Union, which has for years warned that Spain’s treatment of temporary civil servants (funcionarios interinos<\/em>) infringes EU law, and the Administrative Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court, which, in the author’s view, has upheld its case law in spite of those rulings.<\/p>\n

Following the Obadal<\/em> judgment in April, the CJEU has gone a step further with its judgment of 8 September: the State must be held liable for damage caused when a supreme court departs from EU law. The Court also sets out when such an error is sufficiently serious, including where the relevant request for a preliminary ruling is not made or where existing EU case law left no room for the solution adopted.<\/p>\n

The practical consequence, explains the partner in the Public, Administrative and Regulatory practice<\/a>, is clear: temporary public employees whose claims were dismissed on the basis of the Supreme Court’s case law may now bring a State liability claim.<\/p>\n

You can read the full article here:<\/p>\n

Opinion | elEconomista: El Tribunal Supremo contra Europa: El precio lo pagan los interinos<\/a> (in Spanish)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an opinion piece published in elEconomista, Javier Ram\u00f3n, partner in Toda & Nel-lo’s Public, Administrative and Regulatory practice, analyses the CJEU judgment of 8 September 2026 and its implications for the thousands of temporary public employees whose claims have been dismissed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6727,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6732","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTemporary public employees: CJEU opens the door to claims against the State for Supreme Court errors - Toda & Nel-lo Abogados<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an opinion piece published in elEconomista, Javier Ram\u00f3n, partner in Toda & Nel-lo's Public, Administrative and Regulatory practice, analyses the CJEU judgment of 8 September 2026 and its implications for the thousands of temporary public employees whose claims have been dismissed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.todanelo.com\/en\/articulos\/temporary-public-employees-cjeu-opens-the-door-to-claims-against-the-state-for-supreme-court-errors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Temporary public employees: CJEU opens the door to claims against the State for Supreme Court errors - 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