Posted: Dec 1,2009 8:32 pm CST
German high court reaffirms Sunday Law
Ruling in favor of the Catholic and Lutheran churches,Germany's highest court has found that the city of Berlin's ten shopping Sundays a year go against the constitutional protection of Sundays as a day of rest.
Dec 1,2009 (Deutsche Welle) -- Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that shops must close on Sundays,and that legislation in Berlin allowing for ten shopping Sundays was unconstitutional. Germany's Basic Law protects Sunday and public holidays as "days of rest from work and of spiritual improvement." . . continue reading.
