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Court Rejects GM Claims Against VW: The German car maker won a round in its feud with General Motors Corp., but the controversial executive at the center of the struggle, Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, is still far from claiming victory. A Frankfurt civil court judge rejected claims from GM’s Adam Opel subsidiary, which had charged that Volkswagen won an unfair competitive advantage by hiring seven GM managers after Lopez left GM last March to join VW. Lopez remains the focus of extensive investigations stemming from allegations of industrial espionage in connection with his move to VW.