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Constitutional Drift: Toward the End of Federal Shop-Closing (Ladenschluss) Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Craig T. Smith

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Germany's Federal Constitutional Court held on June 9, 2004, that the weekend and holiday closing requirements of the federal Shop-Closing Act (Ladenschlussgesetz) are compatible with the Basic Law. At the same time, however, the Court's decision in this Weekend Shop-Closing Case situated the Act's Saturday closing requirement – and by implication its weekday closing requirements too – perilously close to the brink of unconstitutionality.

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Public Law
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , 01 September 2004 , pp. 1031 - 1044
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Copyright © 2004 by German Law Journal GbR 

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