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Announcements
06/04/2012
Oral Hearing in the case "Open Brown Coal Pit Garzweiler"
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Andre Bucher
Die Gerechtigkeit
(Justice)
Recent decisions and press releases available in English
04/28/2013
“In-State-Residents” (
Landeskinder) Provision in Former Bremen Act on Study Accounts Unconstitutional
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04/24/2013
Counter-Terrorism Database in its Fundamental Structures Compatible with the Basic Law, but not Regarding Specific Aspects of its Design
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04/12/2013
“NSU Trial”: Application of a Turkish Newspaper for a Preliminary Injunction Successful in Part – Further Applications Unsuccessful
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04/03/2013
Assessment of Contributions Only Permissible Within a Definite Period of Time
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03/19/2013
Legal Regulation of Plea Bargaining is Constitutional – Informal Agreements are Impermissible
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03/05/2013
Applications made by the NPD against Bundestag, Bundesrat and Federal Government unsuccessful
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02/27/2013
Retrospective imposition of preventive detention following confinement in a psychiatric hospital is subject to strict prerequisites
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02/19/2013
Non-admission of successive adoption by registered civil partners is unconstitutional
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12/21/2012
Inadmissible application for constitutional review regarding parental benefits for holders of a residence permit according to section 104a AufenthG
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Press Release ]
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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08/01/2012
Unequal treatment of registered civil partnerships and marriage in the family allowance under civil service law unconstitutional
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07/19/2012
Except where this would breach the duty to establish a distance between preventive detention and imprisonment sentences (Abstandsgebot), it is constitutional and in keeping with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for a sentencing court to reserve its right to order preventive detention at the time of sentencing
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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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Press Release ]
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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