Germany’s highest civil court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by two chain hotels over emergency business restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic and compensation schemes. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) upheld the northern city of Bremen’s emergency restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus infections as lawful, and rejected the hotels’ claim that a business compensation formula was unfair and inadequate. The two Bremen hotels, both part of a larger nationwide hotel chain, argued that Bremen’s compensation formula gave small- and mid-sized businesses an unfair advantage. …