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  Federal Administrative Court of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) is one of the five federal supreme courts of Germany.
It is the federal court of appeals for generally all cases of administrative law, mainly disputes between citizens and the state.
However, cases concerning social security law belong to the jurisdiction of the Sozialgerichte (Social Courts) with the Bundessozialgericht as federal court of appeals, and cases of tax and customs law are decided by the Finanzgerichte (Finance Courts), and, ultimately, by the Bundesfinanzhof.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Administrative_Court_of_Germany   (179 words)

  
 Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, whose unexpectedly high demands were perceived as humiliating in Germany and as a continuation of the war by other means.
Germany and Berlin were occupied and partitioned by the Allies into four military occupation zones – French in the south-west, British in the north-west, American in the south-east, and Soviet in the north-east.
The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m / 9,718 ft) in the south to the shores of the North Sea (Nordsee) in the north-west and the Baltic Sea (Ostsee) in the north-east.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Germany   (7923 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
Germany has a temperate climate; the lowlands of the N are somewhat warmer than the higher elevations in the central and S regions.
Germany’s principal seaports are Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea, and Lübeck and Rostock on the Baltic.
The head of state is the federal president, who is elected to a 5-year term by a federal convention consisting of the Bundestag (the lower house of the parliament) and an equal number of delegates chosen by the state legislatures.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/germany.html   (9487 words)

  
 The Federal Constitutional Court: an Introduction
The court´s status as a constitutional organ is manifest in its power to keep a check on other constitutional organs, define more closely their rights and powers, and nullify with general binding effect laws passed by the legislative bodies.
The court must transmit to the Federal Constitutional Court the files of the case and state in detail why its decision in that case depends on the validity of the statutory provision submitted for review and why it considers that provision to be unconstitutional.
If, for example, the Federal Constitutional Court quashes a court decision because it rests on an unconstitutional interpretation of a statutory provision, this means that in future all state bodies, including all courts, must base their decisions on the interpretation of the provision which is in conformity with the constitution.
www.iuscomp.org /gla/literature/Inbverfg.htm   (9703 words)

  
 German Constitution: 1949
The judges of the Supreme Federal Court are selected jointly by the Federal Minister of justice and a committee for the selection of judges consisting of the Land Ministers of justice and an equal number of members elected by the Bundestag.
The Federation may grant the Laender financial assistance for particularly important investments by the Laender or communes or associations of communes, provided that such investments are necessary to avert a disturbance of the overall economic equilibrium or to equalize differences of economic capacities within the federal territory or to promote economic growth.
Federal statutes enacted pursuant to paragraph (1) or subparagraph 1 of paragraph (2) of this Article may, for the purpose of preparing for their enforcement, be applied even prior to the occurrence of a state of Defense.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /docs/german.htm   (17339 words)

  
 Case Law in Germany - Decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court - Equal Employment Opportunities
A supervisor of a cake factory was fined for having employed women to wrap cakes at night, which was considered a violation of a statute prohibiting the employment of women as blue-collar workers at night.
The Constitutional Court ruled that the law on revenue tax contravened the basic law on equality between men and women and the protection of the family.
According to Federal Government statistics in 1999, 55% of mothers of children from 3-6 and 75% of mothers of children from 10-18 respectively were a single parent.
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/germany/cl_fcc.htm   (337 words)

  
 PHR2004 - Federal Republic of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On June 23, 2004, this court upheld most of its original 2001 judgment, interpreting the amendment to the Stasi Files Act restrictively, with the effect that large parts of the files concerning the former chancellor will not be disclosed to the media.
However, the Federal DPA points out that all data of persons not related to terrorist activities have to be deleted immediately and new evaluations have to be carried out to test its efficiency.
Germany is a member of the Council of Europe and has signed and ratified the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention No.
www.privacyinternational.org /article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-83513   (5872 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Germany
March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's Federal Constitutional Court may decide tomorrow that a tax on share sale gains is unconstitutional because the difficulty of enforcing the law makes it unfair, said Rolf Krauss, a lawyer at Lovells.
The law may breach the principle of equal treatment because banking secrecy rules mean authorities rarely enforce the tax, the Federal Finance Court ruled in 2002, referring the issue to the Constitutional Court for its judgment.
Germany's financial authorities don't have any effective means to determine the tax on the income correctly, the Federal Financial Court said in its July 2002 ruling.
quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=a9oBrCHJuZZE&refer=germany   (724 words)

  
 Law.com - Supreme Court Finds Medellin Case a Muddle
Along those lines, the Court was told Monday that Medellin's Texas lawyers over the weekend initiated a state habeas corpus appeal in Texas courts to begin the appeal process hinted at in the Bush statement.
The procedural dilemmas of the case did not keep some of the justices from voicing views on the substantive issue of the interplay between the World Court ruling and the power and jurisdiction of state and federal courts.
Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court's most vocal opponent of allowing foreign laws and norms to influence Supreme Court decisions, suggested in several questions that he did not think a treaty could "give away" the final authority of the Supreme Court to decide constitutional questions.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1112016914359   (845 words)

  
 The Cincinnati Post
Similarly, the court in split decisions has repeatedly overturned many of the General Assembly's efforts to impose limits on jury awards for non-economic damages, once going so far as to invalidate an entire reform package without even waiting for cases to work their way up from the lower courts.
Rated "recommended'' by the OSBA, he has used the federal court rulings noted above to announce that he would have held the entire General Assembly in contempt of court in the school funding case and that he agrees with prior Ohio Supreme Court rulings that caps on non-economic damage awards are unconstitutional.
A graduate of the University of Toledo College of Law class, she served in private practice and on Toledo's Municipal Court before her election in 1989 to the Lucas County Common Pleas court and, in 2002, to the 6th District Court of Appeals in 2002.
www.cincypost.com /2004/10/16/edita101604.html   (979 words)

  
 The University of Saarland, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
News bulletins of the German Federal Constitutional Court and the federal supreme courts of Germany [in English]
You will find English references only to the news bulletins of the German Constitutonal Court and the federal supreme courts of Germany that are believed to be of particular international interest.
Recent news bulletins of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
www.jura.uni-sb.de /Entscheidungen/entsch-engl.html   (228 words)

  
 Foreign & International - Germany
Federal laws as well as state laws in full-text.
Das Bundesgesetzblatt (Federal Official Gazette) Part I as a free online version is available as a free read-only pdf version beginning with January 1998 and Part II as a free version after registration (cannot be printed) from Bundesanzeiger publishers.
Legal Research in Germany at the Crossroads of Traditional and Electronic Media: An Overview by Rita Exter and Martina Kammer.
www.law.nyu.edu /library/foreign_intl/germany.html   (481 words)

  
 Baltimore Independent Media Center: BTL: Federal Court Derails Campaign Finance Regulations Supreme Court will...
After years of struggle for campaign finance reform, Congress passed legislation which banned unregulated "soft money" contributions made to political parties by corporations, unions and individuals.
In its rulings, the court struck down some key provisions of the law while upholding others, creating a mixed result for supporters and opponents.
But in the end this decision is only temporary, as the U.S. Supreme Court will have the final say when it hears the case later this year.
baltimore.indymedia.org /newswire/display/4066/index.php   (482 words)

  
 EUBFN Country Profile - Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations.
With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Germany's ageing population, combined with high unemployment, has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding contributions from workers.
www.eubfn.com /arts/germany.htm   (1481 words)

  
 Germany, East (Former) : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Germany, East (Former) : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Workers and the Free German Trade Union Federation
Women and the Democratic Women's League of Germany
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/gxtoc.html   (146 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | New German finance minister named
After weeks of wrangling, the SPD agreed on Monday that Mrs Merkel could be chancellor, but in return demanded half the seats in the cabinet, including eight of the 14 federal ministries.
Mr Steinbrueck is seen as a pragmatic politician on the right of the SPD, who had the difficult job managing the finances of Germany's ailing Ruhr industrial heartland.
SPD sources said Mr Muentefering, who took over the leadership of the SPD from Mr Schroeder in 2003, would also be labour minister.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/4337424.stm   (378 words)

  
 Forbes.com: U.S. court sets key date in Napster damages cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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LOS ANGELES, April 27 (Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday set June 14 to hear motions to dismiss lawsuits claiming investors in Napster kept the song-swap site going, costing the music industry $17 billion in lost sales.
Napster went bankrupt in 2002 and was bought by software firm Roxio Inc. (nasdaq: ROXI - news - people) which relaunched it as a pay-for-use service last year.
www.forbes.com /markets/newswire/2004/04/27/rtr1349924.html   (591 words)

  
 DINL - Der Invest Informant
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Federal Reserve And Inflation Targeting - First Do No Harm
Tech: VOIP - Court Skeptical of Wiretap Rules
www.derinvestinformant.com   (559 words)

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