A civil case involving two Jewish litigants was disposed of in Vienna civil county court yesterday. Yom Kippur, marking the first time that a Jewish civil case was tried on Yom Kippur in an Austrian court. One of the litigants had asked for a postponement of the case since the Austrian legal code explicitly takes into consideration the religion of parties to a legal dispute in determining the date of a process. The judicial senate, however, rejected the appeal because it said that the request for a postponement should have been submitted before the trial was scheduled.
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