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The Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) had to deal with a constitutional complaint directed against a civil law decision of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH). [...]
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On Nov. 14, 2019, the regulatory authorities of Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia, Bavaria and the [...]
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On October 30, 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued a fine notice against Deutsche Wohnen SE in [...]
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