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 [...]
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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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The VII Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which is responsible, among other things, for appeals concerning the general prerequisites of compulsory enforcement, had [...]
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Unsolicited telephone advertising has become a serious problem. According to a survey conducted by the forsa Institute in the fall of 2007, 86 [...]
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