I’m back from Berlin now, but thought you might want to catch up with part two of this summer’s German constitutional litigation over the smoking bans introduced by various Länder. You may recall that the bans in Baden-Württemberg and Berlin were ruled unconstitutional and must be applied with modifications pending legislative reform, because the scope […]

I’m afraid you need to read German in order to read the recent judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court in which it has ruled unconstitutional smoking bans in Berlin and Baden-Württemberg. There is also a press release which explains the judgment in slightly less dense German, and a Deutsche Welle article in English which gives […]