Manuel Wackenheim had argued the 1995 ban by France's highest administrative court was discriminatory and deprived him of a job being hurled around discotheques by burly men.
In 2005 the German federal administrative court ruled in favour of an army major who had refused to obey an order in case it implicated him in the Iraq war.
Beginning in January the government imposed on private cabs a 15-minute wait before picking up passengers, but this decree has been suspended by the State Council, the highest administrative court.
The establishment of administrative courts may not only remedy the deficiency in specialty of administrative litigation, but also help to promote judicial independence in administrative litigation.
This week Porsche challenged Deutsche Börse in the administrative court in Cassel for requiring quarterly reporting as a condition of entry and lost, but will almost certainly appeal.
Yulia Tymoshenko, the losing candidate in a vote internationally recognised as fair, presented Ukraine's administrative court with evidence of what she said was widespread electoral fraud.