Discretion and Wikipedia.de
am 20.01.2006 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
CK - Washington. Under the Code of Civil Procedure, judges determine in the free exercize of their discretion measures for immediate relief. Munich lawyer Arne Trautmann explains at the Law-Blog why the closing of the domain wikipedia.de in response to a request for an injunction out of concern over a single Wikipedia.de page may be legal overkill.
Essentially, he argues, the court must apply measures suitable to attain the immediate objective. Laying the entire German-language Wikipedia to waste is excessive and may indicate ignorance of the workings of the internet.
The injunction is not publicly available and should help understand why the …
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