Key legal question
Whether the prior cantonal judgment had res judicata effect barring renewed reliance on the article's lawfulness
Extracted holding
The prior judgment's dispositive section was decisive; it did not permit separating the headline from the article's statements, so res judicata did not bar the claim.
Extracted reasoning
The federal court held that the dispositive wording of the 1994 judgment controlled the scope of res judicata and that a separate treatment of headline and individual passages would create intolerable inconsistencies.