You read about an case at the European Court of Justice, you have the case reference but Google is no help. This explains it all:
http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=En&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-278/08
You just have to replace C-278/08 in the URI by the case number you are looking for.
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