Smokers take note! The Federal Supreme Court (BGH) on Friday have declared that the smell of smoke can be limited to certain times of the day after a couple sued their cigarette-smoking neighbours for stinking up their afternoon coffee time.
National rail operator Deutsche Bahn said Sunday it was taking legal action against Lufthansa and other airlines over claims of fixing air cargo prices.
All that glitters is not gold, but in this case it is. Now the city of Munich might find itself with a hefty bill after towing an illegally parked gilded Ferrari which its owner uses as his work car.
Drivers in Germany can use their mobile phones whenever their vehicle's motor is not running, including when waiting at a red light, a court ruled on Tuesday.
A Bavarian woman is suing police for unlawful search after a reported break-in at her home led authorities to discover 158 cannabis plants in her basement.
A bodybuilder who boarded Chancellor Angela Merkel's government jet in his underpants and threw a one-man party told a court on Thursday he could not remember the incident and had never been on a plane before.
Germans are liable for their parents' old age care even if they have not been in contact for decades, one of the country's top courts ruled on Wednesday.
A pharmacist agreed on Monday to pay a €6,000 fine after wrongly mixing eye-drops which were 1,000 times as strong as the doctor ordered and badly damaged three babies' eyes.
A dog owner who paid €1,400 for a pedigree pug dog is seeking compensation from the breeder after the animal was found to have a serious degenerative illness.
A German man who spent seven years in jail after being falsely accused of rape by his daughter was acquitted on Tuesday. The court heard how she made up the story as a girl as revenge for her parents' divorce.
EU citizens who have never worked in Germany but have been living in the country for a long time can claim unemployment benefits, a court ruled on Thursday, in a decision which could affect 130,000 foreigners in Germany.
The young man who became world famous as the "Forest Boy" when he claimed he had lived feral in German woods for five years - agreed to carry out 150 hours of community service on Thursday after admitting making it all up.
A German court has forbidden a woman from having her six-year old son circumcised because of a risk of psychological damage. The decision comes a year after a similar ruling sparked an international outcry.
Four convicted sex criminals have been awarded compensation for being held too long in preventive detention. Germany's highest court also ruled that individual states are responsible for paying up in such cases.
A German court sentenced a teacher to more than five years in prison on Friday for falsely accusing her colleague of rape. The wrongly accused man spent five years behind bars.
A German court began hearing an appeal by a British bishop on Monday who was convicted in a high-profile case for denying key facts about the Holocaust.
A German man, whose wife fell seriously ill after he spiked her Capri Sun drink to spice up their sex life, was handed a suspended prison sentence on Monday.
German car manufacturer Mercedes was celebrating on Tueday after France's top administrative court overruled a contentious government decision to ban the sale of some top-end models on environmental grounds.
France's top administrative court said on Friday it will rule this Tuesday on a request by Germany's Daimler for the lifting of a contentious ban on the sale of certain Mercedes cars.
Two women in central Germany ended a lifelong friendship over a broken toilet. One tried to sue the other when she ripped the toilet from a wall by sitting on it and refused to pay half of the repair costs.
