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Announcements
09/1929/2012
Pronouncement of judgment in the case "ESM Treaty and the Fiscal Compact" - temporary injunctions
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Andre Bucher
Die Gerechtigkeit
(Justice)
Recent decisions and press releases available in English
09/12/2012
Applications for the issue of temporary injunctions to prevent the ratification of the ESM Treaty and the Fiscal Compact unsuccessful for the most part
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07/18/2012
Provisions governing basic cash benefits provided for in the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act held unconstitutional
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07/11/2012
Constitutional complaints regarding delisting unsuccessful
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07/05/2012
Notary’s constitutional complaint against instructions issued by the supervisory authority regarding the documentation of his notarial escrow services rejected
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07/04/2012
Unsuccessful complaint challenging the Federal Constitutional Court justices being elected by the German Bundestag’s electoral committee
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06/19/2012
Successful applications in Organstreit proceedings regarding the "ESM/Euro Plus Pact"
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06/06/2012
Application for a review of the provision on pensions paid for the upbringing of children held inadmissible
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05/30/2012
Retrospective reform of the temporary increase in the rate of the retirement pension held constitutional
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05/22/2012
Entry into force of the introduction of a statutory obligation to announce the price in the case of “call-by-call” telephone services postponed
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05/02/2012
Organstreit proceedings relating to the election of the Federal President: exclusion of Federal Constitutional Court Justice Müller
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04/17/2012
Exclusion of crediting periods of detention under measures of correction and prevention unconstitutional in part
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03/08/2012
Exclusion of non-EU citizens from the grant of Land child-raising benefit under the Bavarian Land Child-Raising Benefit Act unconstitutional
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03/06/2012
Reduction of special payments for Deutsche Telekom civil servants held constitutional
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02/28/2012
Application in Organstreit proceedings regarding the Bundestag’s right of participation/EFSF successful for the most part
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02/24/2012
Provisions of Telecommunications Act on storage and use of telecommunications data unconstitutional in part
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02/22/2012
The allocation of constituencies on the basis of the German residential population does not render the 2009 Bundestag election unconstitutional
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02/21/2012
Exclusion of eating establishments from the permission to provide separate smoking rooms under the Hamburg Act on the Protection from Passive Smoking held unconstitutional
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02/14/2012
W 2 remuneration of professors in Hesse held unconstitutional
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01/18/2012
Decision regarding the privatisation of institutions for the execution of measures of correction and prevention: provision on the ordering of security measures by private nurses under the Hesse Act on the Execution of Measures of Correction and Prevention held constitutional
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