Overview

• On June 12, the Saxon Constitutional Court ruled that most provisions of the January and February 2021 COVID-19 ordinances met constitutional requirements.
• Judges found nighttime curfews and fixed caps on wedding and funeral attendance unconstitutional due to their lack of linkage to local infection rates.
• The court highlighted Sachsen’s seven-day incidence peak above 300 per 100,000 inhabitants alongside the absence of vaccines as justification for broad governmental discretion in health measures.
• Challenges to other rules such as restaurant closures, public alcohol bans and demonstration caps were dismissed or not admitted for review.
• Partial success for an AfD-led norm control complaint means the state will bear some legal costs even as it retains most of its early 2021 pandemic toolkit.