Key legal question
Whether the newspaper article still had adequate causal connection to the claimant's later psychiatric and economic loss after 31 December 2000
Extracted holding
The adequate causal link could no longer be retained beyond 31 December 2000; the cantonal court did not violate federal law in limiting liability to that date.
Extracted reasoning
Adequate causation is assessed objectively under ordinary life experience. Given the three-year period after the shock, the cantonal assessment that the psychotraumatic consequences should ordinarily have been overcome was not an abuse of discretion.