In its press release “Administrative Court of Schleswig - just as the EU Commission - sees a violation of EU law and has submitted European-law questions relating to the new sports betting monopoly to the ECJ”, Hambach & Hambach informed the public for the first time of the ECJ case Carmen Media (C-46/08) represented by the law firm. On 8 December 2009, only slightly less than 2 years later, the La Grand Salle at the European Court of Justice was the centre of (European) gambling (law):