Giusep Nay (born 9 August 1942 in Trun, Grisons) was the

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of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for the years 2005 and 2006. He was elected to the Supreme Court in 1988 after being nominated by the

Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (german: Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz, CVP), also called the Christian Democratic Party (french: Parti démocrate-chrétien, PDC), Democratic People's Party ( it, Partito P ...

. Nay resigned his office in 2006. Together with former MP

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and law professor Giorgio Malinverni, he was nominated by the Swiss government to replace

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as the Swiss judge at the

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. Eventually, Malinverni was elected to succeed Wildhaber.

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