Kernrechtsfrage
Whether Art. 35 GestG barred the civil action because the same dispute was already pending in criminal adhesion proceedings.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The proceedings did not concern the same claim: the adhesion claim covered benefits paid up to end-February 2002, while the civil action concerned benefits from March 2002 onward; the legal grounds also differed.
Extrahierte Begründung
Art. 35 GestG requires identity of subject matter, not merely the same legal question. Here the factual basis and the claims were different, so no lis pendens existed.