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It's extremely unlikely that the court will strike down the law in a way that this situation arises. It's not like everybody starts to pretend that a law has never existed if it's ruled unconstitutional. Usually arrangements will be made for those that relied on it. Especially in a case like this, where another basic right is affected.

(It's two months btw)



perhaps, but if MietenWoG is struck down that leaves only the BGB.

yes you're right, two months not one.


As I said, "strike down" usually doesn't mean "transport everyone into a parallel universe where the law has never existed but all people still have acted the same and deal with the fallout no matter how unjust". Rulings are usually much more nuanced than that (and constitutionally required to be that).


This is one more of those "software engineer tries to apply algorithmic thinking to law and gets ridiculous results" situations.

If you continue to be patient and repeat that humanity doesn't function according to algorithms, they'll eventually get the message or get bored and leave to work on the next disruption.




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