Key legal question
Whether the action for damages and moral compensation under the Federal State Liability Act was time-barred
Extracted holding
The claim was filed too late because the applicant knew the relevant damage and circumstances by August 1996, more than three years before filing in September 1999.
Extracted reasoning
The limitation period started when the applicant sufficiently knew the factual basis of the damage claim; the damage was already complete and foreseeable. The absolute ten-year period also ran from the 1978 entry into force of the filiation reform, and legislative acts are not attributable to a 'functionary' under the Act.