North Rhine-Westphalia's court decisions join the German case law
German case law on the gateway was federal: the Bundesgerichtshof, the Bundesverwaltungsgericht, the Bundesfinanzhof, the Bundesarbeitsgericht, the Bundessozialgericht and the Bundesverfassungsgericht, as Rechtsprechung im Internet publishes them. Most German litigation never reaches those benches. Ask about a dismissal dispute or a tenancy case and your agent found the federal court's last word on the question, or nothing.
The corpus now serves 281,813 decisions from two publishers. Beside the 84,156 federal decisions sit 197,657 from NRWE, the Rechtsprechungsdatenbank of Justiz NRW: the Oberlandesgerichte, Landgerichte and Amtsgerichte of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the state's administrative, labour, social and finance courts. Each row names the publisher that issued it, and your agent can fetch any decision it finds back from that publisher by its reference.
Ask your agent: "Using Ansvar, how have the North Rhine-Westphalia courts decided on Kündigungsschutz for employees on parental leave?" It answers from the Landesarbeitsgericht and the Arbeitsgerichte, cited to the decision.
Both publishers place their decisions outside copyright as amtliche Werke under UrhG §5, and both anonymise before publication. German court decisions are available from Premium. Scope with sources=['german-court-decisions'], or let a German or EU-wide search reach them. The coverage page shows the current set.