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of 06/30/2009
The subject-matter of the
Organstreit proceedings and constitutional complaints, which have been consolidated for joint adjudication, is the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, signed at Lisbon, 13 December 2007 (OJ no. C 306/1). The proceedings relate to the German Act Approving the Treaty of Lisbon and – partly – the accompanying laws to the Act Approving the Treaty of Lisbon: The Act Amending the Basic Law (Articles 23, 45 and 93), which has already been promulgated, but not yet entered into force, and the Act Extending and Strengthening the Rights of the Bundestag and the Bundesrat in European Union Matters, which has been adopted, but not yet signed and promulgated.
see also
english press release of 06/30/2009
of 03/03/2009
The complaints requesting the scrutiny of an election relate to the permissibility of the deployment of computer-controlled voting machines, which are also referred to as electronic voting machines or “election computers”, in the elections to the 16th German Bundestag.
of 05/07/2008
The Organstreit proceedings (proceedings on a dispute between supreme federal bodies) relate to whether the deployment of German soldiers in NATO AWACS aircraft to monitor airspace above the sovereign territory of Turkey required the approval of the German Bundestag.
of 02/27/2008
The subject-matter of the constitutional complaints are the provisions of the North Rhine-Westphalia Constitution Protection Act regulating, firstly, the powers of the constitution protection authority regarding various instances of data collection, in particular from information technology systems, and secondly, the handling of the data collected.
see also
english press release of 02/27/2008
of 02/26/2008
The subject of the constitutional complaints is the admissibility of photojournalistic articles on the private and everyday life of celebrities.
see also
english press release of 03/18/2008
of 07/03/2007
The applications in the Organstreit proceedings (proceedings on a dispute between supreme federal bodies) relate to the participation of armed German forces in the deployment of an International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. The applicant submits that the respondent participated in a further development of the NATO Treaty outside its statutory framework of authorisation and in doing so infringed rights of the German Bundestag under Article 59.2 of the Basic Law.
of 07/03/2007
The applications in the Organstreit proceedings (proceedings on a dispute between supreme federal bodies) relate to the participation of armed German forces in the deployment of an International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. The applicant submits that the respondent participated in a further development of the NATO Treaty outside its statutory framework of authorisation and in doing so infringed rights of the German Bundestag under Article 59.2 of the Basic Law.
of 06/14/2007
The constitutional complaints concern the service of statements of claim in American class actions on the complainant in Germany through mutual assistance channels pursuant to the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (Hague Service Convention) of 15 November 1965 (Federal Law Gazette 1977 II p. 1452).
of 05/08/2007
The Republic of Argentina has been confronted since 1999 with considerable economic problems, which at least temporarily expanded to become a state financial crisis. In connection with the financial crisis, Argentina made considerable use of the tool of government bonds abroad in order to cover the need for currency and for capital. Such bonds were also issued on the German capital market and subscribed to by German creditors.
of 02/09/2007
In a constitutional complaint filed by his children’s guardian (curator ad litem), the complainant, who was born in 1999, challenges a judicial decision on contact and, by way of a temporary injunction, seeks an order for the decision on contact to be provisionally suspended and modified.
of 02/09/2007
In his constitutional complaint 1 BvR 217/07, the complainant challenges a decision of the Naumburg Higher Regional Court on contact and custody with regard to his son, who was born in 1999. In the proceedings 1 BvQ 2/07, he seeks a temporary extension of his contact to his son, by way of the issuing of a temporary injunction.
of 07/03/2006
The constitutional complaint concerns the question in which circumstances measures of the European Patent Office may be challenged by way of a constitutional complaint.
of 05/04/2006
The constitutional complaint concerns the International Monetary Fund’s policy on lending to the Republic of Argentina after the serious financial crisis in 2001 and, in particular, it is directed against the effects of the International Monetary Fund’s lending conditions on private holders of Argentine government bonds.
of 03/28/2006
The constitutional complaint relates to organising and arranging sports betting where the organiser agrees to multiply at predetermined odds the stakes of individual gamblers who correctly predict the outcome of a future sports event.
of 03/28/2006
The subject of the proceedings is the question whether it was unconstitutional that under the employment promotion law in force between 1998 and 2002 periods in which mothers interrupted employment requiring the payment of social security contributions because of the prohibitions under maternity protection law were not taken into account in the calculation of the qualifying period for receiving unemployment benefit.
