Maryland ordered rail company to disclose its role in Holocaust
May 19, 2013
On May 19, 2011, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed a bill requiring French railroad company SNCF to disclose information regarding its participation in the Jewish Holocaust. SNCF was accused of transporting 76,000 Jews and other prisoners from Paris to Germany from 1942 to 1944. In October 20....... [more] 
US appeals court denies asylum to German family wanting to homeschool
May 17, 2013
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday denied an appeal by a German family seeking asylum in the US in order to homeschool their children for religious reasons. The Romeike family alleged that Germany's ban against homeschooling caused them a well-founded fear of persecution based....... [more]
Germany court orders Google to remove defamatory autocomplete results
May 14, 2013
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on Tuesday ordered Google to remove defamatory autocomplete results if notified. The plaintiffs, an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder, claimed when their names were entered on Google's German-language website, autocomplete....... [more]
Germany authorities arrest alleged Nazi guard
May 7, 2013
German authorities on Monday arrested a 93-year-old man for allegedly serving as a guard at Auschwitz and assisting in the mass murder carried out at the death camp. Hans Lipschis, who was deported from the US in 1983 for lying about his Nazi affiliations, has acknowledged being assigned to an SS gu....... [more]
European Commission investigating Motorola for abuse of injunctions against Apple
May 6, 2013
The European Commission on Monday sent a Statement of Objections informing Motorola Mobility, a telecommunications equipment corporation owned by Google, of its preliminary view that the company's seeking and enforcing of an injunction against Apple in Germany is an abuse of its market position. Th....... [more]
Germany court opens neo-Nazi terrorism trial
May 6, 2013
Trial began in Germany Monday for Beate Zschaepe, a neo-Nazi member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), for alleged complicity in the murder of eight Turks, a Greek and a German policewoman in Germany between 2000 and 2007, as well as two bombings and 15 bank robberies. Her two presumed acc....... [more]
Germany top court upholds terrorism database
April 24, 2013
The German Federal Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that an anti-terrorism database does not violate any rights guaranteed by the country's constitution. The court, however, requested the that government perform security enhancements and further access restrictions to the database by the conclus....... [more]
Former Germany president charged with corruption
April 12, 2013
German prosecutors on Friday charged former president Christian Wulff with corruption for allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for political favors before his assent to office in 2010. In 2008 then-govenor Wulff reportedly accepted approximately ?4000 (USD $5000) from German film producer Da....... [more]
European countries commence legal action against Google over privacy policy
April 2, 2013
Six European countries, including France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy, on Tuesday agreed on joint legal action against Google over its privacy policy. The countries claim that 13 months ago when Google merged 60 separate privacy policies, including email, video, social-network....... [more]
Germany Parliament approves copyright law
March 1, 2013
Germany's lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag, on Friday approved a bill to broaden copyright protections for online material, especially news articles. The new law would not charge royalties to search engines, including Google, for displaying short passages of text from articles. This provis....... [more]
Germany approves new election law to help small political parties
February 22, 2013
Germany's parliament approved a new election law Thursday that will help the small political parties gain legislative seats. Germany uses a mixed-member proportional representation voting system which has voters cast two ballots, one for a constituent and one for a party. When a party wins more cons....... [more]
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