Nondestructive Fax
am 21.10.2004 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. advobLAWg links to an appellate ruling from Frankfurt, docket number 2Ss 39/03, that holds an unsolicited telefax not destructive for purposes of the criminal law. Paper, power and ink used for this …
Sanctity of EMail
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / ACP - Washington. The Karlsruhe Court of Appeals, Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe, decided a controversy between a university in Baden-Wuerttemberg and a former science employee that the purposeful filtering of EMails could be punishable under Ger…
Musical Fishing Expedition
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. A purported copyright owner of musical titles requested, with an emergency petition, from an internet access provider detailed contact information of its customer who operates an FTP server via a domain name and a dynamically…
Introducing Documents
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. In criminal matters, courts may consider documents properly introduced into a trial even if they have not been read into the record but the Supreme Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe established some limits in its ruling of Ja…
Forced Labor Compensation
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe released its written decision in the forced labor matter, docket number 1 BvR 1804/03, in which it had to assess the constitutionality of the compensation program for the Nazi forced labor…
Noname Significant Other
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. A significant other of no fame may not be named in press reports on the life of a famous person with whom the noname other appears in public, the Frankfurt appellate court decided on July 26, 2005, docket no. 11 U 13/03, as re…
Uniformed Officer no Clown
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Calling a uniformed officer a clown can constitute libel. A passenger demanded to see the ID of a uniformed officer on a train during a random ticket inspection with these words: Any old clown could ask for my ticket, let me s…
