Quantification of attorney fees in constitutional complaint proceedings

The Federal Constitutional Court set the subject matter value of the proxy work in the constitutional complaint proceedings at €250,000, a procedural determination issued by the Second Senate regarding case 2 BvR 1152/10. This decision did not adjudicate the merits of an underlying constitutional complaint but instead resolved the specific procedural issue of quantifying the financial value of the attorney’s efforts for potential fee reimbursement or cost assessment purposes. The ruling relies on the Court’s procedural authority to establish the Gegenstandswert (subject matter value) as a necessary administrative step in the handling of the constitutional complaint, ensuring that the economic scale of the legal representation is formally recorded for subsequent financial settlements.