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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Template Article
The Federal Constitutional Court accepted arguments brought by family groups and a father of 10 children that the program, as currently operated, failed to meet the German Constitution's requirement that the state ensure equality and promote the family.
The reason: According to the court, these contributors are not dependent on premiums to be paid by the next generation and are choosing freely to obtain the extra insurance.
The court did, however, see a breach of the constitution in the present practice of excluding individuals "in need of care" who have not paid into private nursing insurance or the compulsory program from directly benefiting, and instead being forced to turn to nursing provided by the welfare system.
www.globalaging.org /health/world/germancourt.htm   (661 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Germany had also recognized the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights in accordance with article 46 of the European Convention.
It was also asked whether there was in Germany a code of ethics for the police and prison staff and whether any effort was being made in faculties of law to instil awareness of the question of torture.
The Committee welcomed the legal and administrative measures that had been taken in Germany to prevent and, where necessary, punish torture, and it was pleased to note that Germany was doing everything in its power to fulfil the obligations it had assumed in ratifying the Convention.
www.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/catGERMNY93.htm   (1707 words)

  
 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   (191 words)

  
 2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Germany
Germany is a constitutional parliamentary democracy; citizens periodically choose their representatives in free and fair multiparty elections.
The Federal Criminal Office (BKA) reported in their annual report on trafficking in persons that the numbers of known and registered victims in 2003 was 1,235, and the percentage of registered victims under age 18 continued to be in the 5 percent range.
All 16 states incorporated the federal guidelines into their building codes, and 98 percent of federal public buildings followed the guidelines for a "barrier free environment." Building regulations for private property are decided on a state by state basis.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41683.htm   (10141 words)

  
 Germany
Germany was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant.
The stated reason for refusal of entry was that Reverend Moon and his wife were considered by the federal government to be leaders of a "sect" that endangered the personal and social development of young people; therefore, their entry to the country would not be in the national interest.
Federal regulations limit the workweek to a maximum of 48 hours, but the number of hours of work per week was regulated by contracts that directly or indirectly affect 80 percent of the working population.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18367.htm   (9573 words)

  
 Germany
Thus the different regional networks were placed under control of the federal countries of the republic: NWDR (Northern and West Germany, which were split, during the 1950s, into NDR and WDR); Radio Bremen (Bremen); BR (Bavaria); HR (Hessia); SR, SDR and SWF for Southwest Germany.
According to a decision by the federal governments programming had to be planned in coope-ration with the ARD with the aim of presenting contrasting elements on the two channels.
The general public service goal of in-tegrating social minorities through the development and broadcasting of special programming was now driven by the domin-ance of economic measurements.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/G/htmlG/germany/germany.htm   (2454 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Supreme court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In Scotland the supreme court is the Court of Session.
The Supreme Court of Canada was established in 1875, but only became the highest court in the country in 1949, when the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was abolished.
Interpretation of the German constitution, the Grundgesetz, is the task of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Supreme_Court   (945 words)

  
 Migration Information Source - Germany: Immigration in Transition
Germany's post-World War II immigration history is distinguished by the nature of its parallel flows: one of ethnic Germans returning from abroad, and another of foreigners with no German ancestry.
Germany's Ministry of Interior estimates the number of remaining ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe and the territories of the former Soviet Union at around 1.5 million.
Germany was a major supporter of the Eastern European countries that applied for membership; however, at the same time, it feared massive immigration from that region.
www.migrationinformation.org /Profiles/display.cfm?ID=235   (4658 words)

  
 JURIST - Germany
The German government is parliamentary, and a democratic constitution emphasizes the protection of individual liberty and division of powers in a federal structure.
Germany has an independent federal judiciary consisting of a constitutional court, a high court of justice, and courts with jurisdiction in administrative, financial, labor, and social matters.
The highest court is the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court), which ensures a uniform interpretation of constitutional provisions and protects the fundamental rights of the individual citizen as defined in the Basic Law.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /worldlaw/germany.php   (366 words)

  
 Federal Social Court of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Federal Social Court (Bundessozialgericht) is the German federal court of appeals for social security cases, mainly cases concerning the public health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension insurance and occupational accident insurance schmees.
Trial courts for these cases are the Sozialgerichte (Social Courts).
Appeals against decisions of these courts are heard by the Landessozialgerichte (Superior State Social Courts), before the cases may wind up at the Bundessozialgericht.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Social_Court_of_Germany   (118 words)

  
 Germany, 74 BVerf GE 163 (1987)
The Federal Social Court followed this reasoning in the holding which is contested here, [and that court was moreover of] the opinion, that the change in the social reality [since 1957] is not cause for a departure from this view.
As the Federal Constitutional Court has already elaborated upon in its first decision on widows’ pensions, the option granted to the woman to receive a pension already at the age of 60 instead of 65 years, is to be understood through the concept of social compensation.
The Federal Insurance Agency for Employees correctly points out that the educational deficit of women, which in the past significantly lessened their professional standing and thereby their compensation and pension, in typical cases has its origin in the anticipation of the expected position of the women as a mother.
www.hrcr.org /safrica/equality/74bverfge.html   (1468 words)

  
 Federal Youth Court Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
She is a youth court coordinator as well as a school resource officer.
Angela Tucker is a forensic social worker for the Bluegrass Regional Mental Health and Retardation Board located in Lexington, KY. She has been with the unit of Forensic Social Work for two years, which is an affiliate of the local mental health center.
I manage an 80-bed facility for juveniles who are in detention prior to a court hearing or waiting placement after adjudication; I also supervise employees, establish policy and procedure, and work with state, county and local officials on issues related to juvenile detention.
www.youthcourt.net /YC_Youth/Career_Corner   (6944 words)

  
 Accident Health Insurance
Federal Social Court of Germany - The Federal Social Court (Bundessozialgericht) is the German federal court of appeals for social security cases, mainly cases concerning the public health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension insurance and occupational accident insurance schmees.
Bundessozialgericht - The Bundessozialgericht (German for Federal Social Court) is the German federal court of appeals for social security cases, mainly cases concerning public health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension insurance and occupational accident insurance plans.
Social health insurance - Broadly speaking, health care systems across the world are funded in three different ways: by private contributions, social health insurance contributions or taxes.
www.wznlj.com /accidenthealthinsurance.html   (888 words)

  
 Germany
Germany lost millions of men in the war and suffered the humiliation of an onerous peace.
Germany was defeated at the cost of more than 22 million dead Russian citizens without whose sacrifice the defeat of nazism would not have benn possible.
Germany had low unemployment and inflation, had a labor shortage, and provided extensive social welfare benefits to its citizens paid out of a social welfare fund.
www.csupomona.edu /~jmvadi/PLS202/Germany.html   (1505 words)

  
 Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The legal position of lesbians and gay men in Germany is covered very thoroughly by the chapters on Germany in "Socio-legal Control of Homosexuality" (Rainer Hoffmann, Joerg Hutter and Ruediger Lautmann) and in the June 1998 ILGA-Europe report "Equality for Lesbians and Gay Men" (Klaus Jetz, Nico J. Beger and Uta Chlubek).
Before the election the Social Democrats had promised the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation, a registered partnership law (which fell short of granting adoption rights), recognition of sexual orientation as a ground for asylum, and residence permits for the foreign partner of a bi-national couple.
The Münster court, which has sole jurisdiction in Germany in appeals regarding visa matters, ruled that the European Convention on Human Rights implied a right for the foreign partner of a binational same-sex couple in a lasting relationship to be granted a residence permit.
www.ilga.info /Information/Legal_survey/europe/germany.htm   (3602 words)

  
 Courting Foreign Nationals
And although the Court has decided to tackle only one issue, there were other questions presented to the lower trial court; namely, that the detainees be informed of charges against them - a due process question - and that they be permitted to consult with their respective attorneys.
Heck, the district court was so sure of the rightness of its actions, that it dismissed the complaint with prejudice, concluding that no other court would have jurisdiction either.
The district court relied on a 1950 case decided by the Supreme Court, in which German "enemy aliens" were being tried abroad by the US Military in Nanking.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/constitution_supreme_court/104905/1   (445 words)

  
 Advocating the Elimination of Gender-Based Discrimination, University of Cape Town, South Africa
The U.S. Supreme Court, early on, expressed a complementary view: The judicial power of the United States, the Court said in 1816, includes cases "in the correct adjudication of which foreign nations are deeply interested.
The Court noted that "within the world community, the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by mentally retarded offenders is overwhelmingly disapproved." (South Africa, of course, figures prominently in the worldwide disapproval, the Constitutional Court having held a decade ago that capital punishment in any case is unconstitutional.)
The impact of that legislation on Hamdan's petition, and on scores of filings in the federal district court in the District of Columbia, remains uncertain.
www.supremecourtus.gov /publicinfo/speeches/sp_02-07b-06.html   (3704 words)

  
 Social Security Online
A great responsibility rests upon the Federal officials and the State officials charged with the administration of the various provisions of the Social Security Act to so administer those provisions as to accomplish their high purpose of bringing real security to the people of this country.
When the first Federal grants were made in February, l936, 21 states were participating in one or more of the three programs--aid to the needy aged, the needy blind, and dependent children --and about 326,000 individuals received assistance during that first month.
The Social Security Act, like the Constitution, may be imperfect; yet it, and other efforts like it in the days to come, will contribute their full measure to the often halting but never ending struggle toward social progress.
www.ssa.gov /history/altm5.html   (3341 words)

  
 Specialized Courts in Select European Countries - Concept Paper on Specialized Courts
Although the courts of the United States and those of the European countries classify most of their judgeships into the generalist category because they serve in what are generalist courts, there is an important distinction.
Most of the specialized courts in the French judicial system fall under the general category of administrativeùas opposed to judicialùcourts that are arranged in a hierarchical structure, the apex of which is the Council of State.
The labor courts have jurisdiction in disputes between employers and employees that stem from labor relations, questions of collective bargaining, and corporate co-determination to the extent that labor relations are involved.
www.abanet.org /ceeli/publications/conceptpapers/speccourts/spc1b.html   (904 words)

  
 Social Security History, Committee on Economic Security
The Social Security Act does not allow additional credit against the Federal tax for reduced contributions to a pooled fund until the employer has had 3 years of experience after compensation is payable, hence 1941 would be the first year for which such additional credit would be allowable.
The Federal Social Security Act leaves to the States the determination of the administrative organization for unemployment compensation, as well as of the substantive provisions of the State law.
The Federal Social Security Act requires that unemployment compensation be paid solely through public employment offices or such other agencies as the Social Security Board may approve.{25} It will be necessary for the State to establish and maintain free employment offices throughout the State for the proper administration of unemployment compensation.
www.ssa.gov /history/reports/ces/cesbookc6.html   (9164 words)

  
 Courts and cases Germany (Lexadin)
The Court is composed of 16 judges assigned by the two senats for a non-renewable period of 12 years.
The Regional courts (landesgerichte) are the courts of appeals for decisions from the local courts and courts of first instance in major civil and criminal matters.There are more than 100 regional courts in Germany.
The Federal Administrative Court is the highest instance for administrative matters arising from disputes between citizens and the german authority.
www.lexadin.nl /wlg/courts/nofr/eur/lxctdui.htm   (413 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Supreme Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Justice Marshall Rothstein was appointed to the Federal Court of Canada in 1992, 26 years after graduating from the University of Manitoba with a law degree.
One of the first cases on the agenda is the federal government's reference to the court on the highly controversial issue.
Several rulings by the province's courts found that the federal government failed to act on the 2000 case declaring the marijuana laws unconstitutional.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/supremecourt/nominees.html   (1484 words)

  
 German Law
The President is elected every 5 years on May 23 by the Federal Assembly, a body convoked only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag (federal legislative lower house) and an equal number of state delegates.
The necessity for the Bundesrat to concur on legislation is limited to bills treating revenue shared by federal and state governments and those imposing responsibilities on the states.
The highest court is the Federal Constitutional Court, which ensures a uniform interpretation of constitutional provisions and protects the fundamental rights of the individual citizen as defined in the Basic Law.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/ger.htm   (375 words)

  
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The Federal Republic of Germany is located in Western Europe, bordered to the west by the Netherlands, Belgium and France.  On its eastern border lie Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria.  Germany is home to over 83,000,000 people, roughly 90% of whom are of German heritage.
The Federal Republic of Germany is comprised of sixteen states, or Lander.
Federal President is elected by a special body called the Federal Convention.  The Federal Convention is composed of the Bundestag, or House of Representatives, and delegates elected by the parliaments of each Land.  Once elected, the
law.cua.edu /ComparativeLaw/Germany/Germany.htm   (858 words)

  
 Federal Constitutional Court - Germany - Equal Employment Opportunities
The Federal Constitutional Court is called upon to verify the compatibility of legislative acts and court decisions with the basic principles promulgated in the constitution.
If the subject matter under dispute concerns issues also covered by European jurisdiction, it is incumbent on the Courts to refer the dispute to the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ).
Decisions of the ECJ are binding on German Labour Courts as well as the Federal Constitutional Court.
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/germany/ct_fcc.htm   (192 words)

  
 The University of Saarland, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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)

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