German government pushing courts to submit data retention cases to CJEU

The German government is urging judges at the German Constitutional Court to submit a series of constitutional complaints filed against Germany’s data retention laws to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), threatening to delay the court’s verdict on the controversial data retention legislation by months or even years. If the cases are submitted to the ECJ, Germany’s constitutional court would have to wait for a ruling from the ECJ before issuing a verdict of its own.

Source: German government pushing courts to submit data retention cases to ECJ – Heise – Telecompaper