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Germany: Federal Constitutional Court Orders Concerning Service of Punitive Damage Claims

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Gerhard Wegen  and
Christopher Kuner
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International Legal Materials , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , July 1995 , pp. 975 - 995
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1995

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[The Introductory Note and English translation were prepared for International Legal Materials by Gerhard Wegen, LL.M., admitted in Stuttgart and New York, I.L.M. Corresponding Editor for Germany, and by Christopher Kuner, LL.M, admitted in New York and Illinois, both of Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch & Partners (Stuttgart/Frankfurt/Berlin/Brussels/Prague). The substantial help in translation by Gerhald Hales is very gratefully acknowledged.

[The case references: IBVR 1279/94. The German text is reported in the legal periodical Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) at 1994 NJW 3281 (Order of August 3, 1994) and 1995 NJW 649 (Order of December 7, 1994). The Orders will be printed in the official Court Reporter.

[The Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters appears at 4 I.L.M. 338 (1965) and at 16 I.L.M. 1339 (1977). Reports on the operation of the Hague Service Convention appear at 28 I.L.M. 1556 (1989) and 17 I.L.M. 319 (1978). Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk. 108 S.Ct. 2104 (1988) is reproduced at 27 I.L.M. 1092 (1988).]

References

1 For a detailed description of the service of U.S. punitive damage claims in Germany prior to the two orders discussed here, see Gerhard Wegen & James Sherer, Recognition and Enforcement of U.S. Punitive Damages Judgements in Germany - A Recent Decision of the German Federal Court of Justice. Int'l Bus. Law., Nov. 1993, 485, 487-488.

2 Decision of June 4, 1992, Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof), Germany, English translation in 32 ILM 1320 (1993).