Correction of an obvious date error in a Federal Constitutional Court judgment

The Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate) ordered a formal correction to the reasoning of a judgment rendered on December 6, 2016, specifically replacing the erroneous date “December 8, 2010” with “October 28, 2010” in the first sentence of paragraph 377, thereby rectifying an obvious clerical error while leaving the substantive ruling otherwise intact. The decision addresses a procedural matter concerning the correction of evident inaccuracies (offenbare Unrichtigkeit) in previously issued federal constitutional judgments. The decisive legal basis is the power of the court to correct obvious errors in its own decisions to ensure factual accuracy in the recorded judicial reasoning.