The Grand Chamber of the European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in the case of Bundesrepublik Deutschland v. Kaveh Puid that, according to the press release, “[w]here a Member State may not transfer an asylum seeker to the State competent to examine his application because of a risk of infringement of his fundamental rights in the latter, the Member State is required to identify another Member State as responsible for the examination.” The ECJ further found that “a finding that it is impossible to transfer an asylum seeker to the Member State initially identified as responsible does not in itself mean that the Member State which is determining the Member State responsible is required itself . . . to examine the application for asylum.” In the case, Mr. Puid, an Iranian national who arrived in Germany irregularly by transiting through Greece, had initially been denied his application for asylum in Germany on the ground that Greece was the Member State competent to examine the application.  Puid brought an action in German court seeking the annulment of the denial and an order that Germany assume responsibility for his asylum application; the German court ruled in favor of Puid on the ground that Germany was required to rule on the application in light of the conditions in Greece related to reception of asylum seekers and processing of asylum applications.  It is now for the Hessischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Higher Administrative Court, Land of Hesse, Germany) to dispose of the appeal from the lower court’s ruling in accordance with the ECJ’s decision.