Key legal question
Whether the expropriation claims for airport-noise damage were time-barred
Extracted holding
A five-year limitation period applies, but it began only when the serious damage and the specialty of the noise became objectively recognizable, which was in autumn 1996 here.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that limitation starts with the accrual of the expropriation claim; accrual requires unpredictability, specialty, and serious damage. In Opfikon, the decisive deterioration only occurred with the sharp rise in flight movements in autumn 1996.