Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the respondent acted in execution of federally assigned public-law tasks when it downgraded the appellant's herd and imposed sales restrictions.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The respondent acted within its own private-law sphere and not in the exercise of public-law tasks of the Confederation; the Federal Liability Act does not apply.
Extrahierte Begründung
The relevant ordinances and statutes mainly provided financial support and supervision, not a transfer of public tasks. The specific disease-control measures for swine pneumonia were primarily a cantonal matter, and the respondent's stricter internal criteria did not transform its conduct into federal state action.