An advertisement with " practice for psychotherapy and trauma therapy" without scientific education with university degree is inadmissible. This had the regional court [...]
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In an appeal judgment pronounced on May 6, 2009, the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz (OLG Koblenz) prohibited Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz GmbH from [...]
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In the future, consumers will receive better information on credit agreements and be protected from dubious bait-and-switch offers. At the same time, cashless payment transactions in the [...]
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In two rulings dated June 4, 2009, the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court (OLG) upheld the ban on public games of chance on the Internet under [...]
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The complainant is a journalist, publisher, publicist and co-editor of a major German newspaper. In. June 2003, the TV station "n-tv" broadcast the [...]
Learn moreLocation of the horse sculpture in front of Aachen Central Station
The 6th Civil Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne (OLG Cologne) dismissed the appeal of the Aachen sculptor Bonifatius Stirnberg in a judgment of 12 June 2009, [...].
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