The plaintiff is demanding that the defendant Federal Republic of Germany refrain from storing dynamic IP addresses. These are sequences of digits that are stored with each [...]
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The plaintiff from Halle rented a room in a hotel in Halle in the period from 04.06.2010 to 07.06.2010 jointly [...]
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In a default judgment pronounced on March 8, 2017, the Berlin-Mitte Local Court ruled that service of a statement of claim in German [...]
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Facts: The plaintiff claims against the defendant for the omission of statements in a rating portal. The defendant operates a website on the Internet [...].
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In a decision, the Federal Court of Justice dealt with the question under which conditions the termination of a residential lease by the [...]
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The I. Civil Senate, which is responsible among other things for copyright law, once again dealt with questions of liability due to participation in [...]
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