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2 B 7/17, 2 B 7/17 (2 C 60/17) ECLI:DE:BVerwG:2017:121217B2B7.17.0 AI generated

Application of the gradual escalation principle to uncivil servants facing cumulative service violations

Case Number 2 B 7/17, 2 B 7/17 (2 C 60/17)
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Jurisdiction Germany (DE)
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The Federal Administrative Court granted the defendant's petition for leave to appeal, permitting a revision proceeding to proceed. The case involves a disciplinary matter challenging the applicability of the principle of "gradual escalation of disciplinary measures" to a civil servant with no prior disciplinary record, where multiple service violations spanning from January 2013 to May 2014 individually did not justify the maximum sanction but cumulatively raised questions of whether the employer's or public confidence had been lost. The decisive legal issue concerns the scope of § 13 Abs. 1 BDG and § 13 Abs. 2 LDG NRW, specifically whether the gradual escalation doctrine applies to non-previously disciplined civil servants in cases of temporally distributed cumulative breaches.

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§ 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO; Application of the gradual escalation principle to uncivil servants facing cumulative service violations: The case involves a disciplinary matter challenging the applicability of the principle of "gradual escalation of disciplinary measures" to a civil servant with no prior disciplinary record, where multiple service violations spanning from January 2013 to May 2014 individually did not justify the maximum sanction but cumulatively raised questions of whether the employer's or public confidence had been lost. The decisive legal issue concerns the scope of § 13 Abs. 1 BDG and § 13 Abs. 2 LDG NRW, specifically whether the gradual escalation doctrine applies to non-previously disciplined civil servants in cases of temporally distributed cumulative breaches.

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disciplinary law civil service administrative sanction legal doctrine application for revision continuation of enforcement

Cited Legislation

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§ 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO
Die Revision der Beklagten ist zuzulassen, weil die Rechtssache grundsätzliche Bedeutung im Sinne von § 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO hat.
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Grundsatz der stufenweisen Steigerung der Disziplinarmaßnahmen bei nicht vorbelasteten Beamten; Revisionszulassung

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Die Revision der Beklagten ist zuzulassen, weil die Rechtssache grundsätzliche Bedeutung im Sinne von § 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO hat. Das Revisionsverfahren erscheint zur Klärung der aufgeworfenen Frage geeignet, ob der für disziplinar vorbelastete Beamte entwickelte Grundsatz der "stufenweisen Steigerung der Disziplinarmaßnahmen" (vgl. BVerwG, Urteil vom 21. März 2001 - 1 D 10.00 - juris, zuletzt Beschluss vom 18. Juni 2014 - 2 B 9.14 - juris) nach § 13 Abs. 2 LDG NRW (§ 13 Abs. 1 BDG) auch dann Beachtung findet, wenn bei einer disziplinar nicht vorbelasteten Beamtin Dienstpflichtverletzungen zu beurteilen sind, die jeweils für sich genommen keinesfalls die Höchstmaßnahme rechtfertigen können, im Falle ihrer zeitlich gestreckten Kumulation - hier von Januar 2013 bis Mai 2014 - jedoch eine Einschätzung begründen können, wonach das Vertrauen des Dienstherrn oder der Allgemeinheit verloren gegangen sei.