As soon as the news made the rounds on Wednesday morning that the lockdown might be extended into March, the first lawyers took their place.
“This would be an invitation to a flood of urgent applications to the administrative courts,” wrote the Berlin lawyer Niko Härting on Twitter, even before the federal-state meeting began.
His reasoning: The funds only trickled, and another month of lockdown massively destroyed jobs and livelihoods. Härting is the lawyer who successfully sued the curfew in the capital on behalf of eleven innkeepers in the fall. The message shows what the Prime Minister and Chancellor must be prepared for.