In a judgment pronounced on July 1, 2008, the 11th Civil Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (OLG Frankfurt a.M.) ruled on the [...]
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The Wuppertal Local Court (AG Wuppertal) ruled in its judgment of April 3, 2007 - AZ: 22 Ds 70 Js 6906/06 - that [...]
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On June 26, 2008, the German Bundestag passed the Act to Modernize the Law on Private Limited Companies and Combat Abuses (MoMiG). "The [...]
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The 8th Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which is responsible for residential tenancy law, has now ruled that a clause in a residential tenancy agreement, with [...]
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The applicant, based in North Rhine-Westphalia, intends to hold poker tournaments as part of the "Poker Bundesliga" in a pub in Rheine. At [...]
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In February 2007, the plaintiff from the Bitburg-Prüm district received a letter that began with the words: "The whole of Germany joined in [...].
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