German American Law Journal :: American Edition

8. Oktober 2008 —CK - Washington.   Blawg Review #180 at Law Pundit provides a comprehensive overview of German-American issues. President Reagan proclaimed German-American Day in 1987. The Blawg Reviews are of more recent vintage. Andis Kaulins assembled an impressive amount and quality of information on German-Ame…

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9. Juli 2007 —CK - Washington.   Many German courts do not publish decisions as quickly as courts do here. Surprisingly, many law bloggers in Germany pull their news and content from TV, magazines and dailies, but not from the often more detailed press releases that courts publish fairly promptly. There are notab…

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15. September 2006 —CK - Washington.   A Cologne court called the publication of an EMail a violation of personality or privacy rights of the sender. The matter 28 O 178/06, decided on September 9, 2006, involves an EMail from a corporation that the recipient apparently forwarded to a party which published it on the In…

16. Juni 2006 —CK - Washington.   The buzz on German blogs is the newest decision on the liability of forum providers for visitor comments. The well-informed Berlin Blawg publishes the Düsseldorf Court of Appeals decision in the matter I-15 U 21/06 of June 7, 2006. Unlike the hostile Hamburg court, discussed here,…

25. April 2006 —CK - Washington.   Internet links to web sites published by others remain legal in Germany, and the mention of names disclosed on such other sites is also legal, the Berlin district court confirmed in its April 20, 2006 judgment in the matter 27 O 925/05. Former GALJ author and Berlin attorney Sebas…

24. April 2006 —CK - Washington.   As reported on April 24, 2006 by Netzpolitik.org, the Freude appeal confirmed the dismissal of the criminal charges against Alvin Freude who used links on his satire web site which the prosecution deemed offensive to the anti-Nazi statutes that limit free speech in Germany. In Ber…

15. Februar 2006 —CK - Washington.   The click on a mouse means the user exerts force. That force may be as powerful as the pulling of a trigger on a gun, the court finds in the Lufthansa online demonstration matter that was discussed here in July and February of 2005. The mepHisto-bLAWg has had a chance to analyze t…

20. Mai 2005 —CK - Washington.   The German blog scene fears restrictive measures that Austria has already enacted. Effective July 1, 2005, any person publishing anything on the Internet in Austria will need to place identifying information on the web site. German law is less restrictive at this time and leaves b…