Key legal question
Whether the Federal Administrative Court could deny state liability for lack of adequate causation between alleged bossing/mobbing and the claimed damage.
Extracted holding
Yes. The alleged conduct was not shown to be the adequate cause of the illness, the job loss consequences, or the claimed damage.
Extracted reasoning
The court accepted that the illness originated in the claimant's psyche rather than in workplace conduct; therefore the asserted harassment could not legally explain the damage.