Professor Nose will receive one hour detention... because of his unexcused tardiness.

By rejecting the authors' compensation claim on the ground of their unexcused failure to apply for validation of their stocks before the deadline on 31 December 1964, the Court did not examine the question of ownership of the stocks.

One year later, after filing a number of complaints, including one with the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, they received a communication from the dean of their department informing them that they had been dismissed for unexcused absences from work .

It further notes that the Frankfurt Regional Court dismissed the authors' compensation claim not only on grounds of their unexcused failure to provide evidence of the IG Farben stocks before 31 December 1964, but also because they had not plausibly established their ownership of the stocks.