Facts
Ringier AG (defendant) published an article titled "Scandal! The dog trainer can keep her dogs this way" in the Blick newspaper on 13 April 2002, reporting on a judgment concerning Marianne Wolf (plaintiff), a dog breeder. The article was illustrated with two photos, one showing Ms. Wolf with her dogs and the other depicting a cluttered room where 26 dogs were located. Ms. Wolf then requested three times that Ringier AG publish a correction, which was refused. The court of first instance ordered the publication of a correction drafted by Ms. Wolf, which was confirmed by the Zurich Cantonal Court. Ringier AG then appealed to the DFC.Considerations
The DFC partially upheld the appeal. It considered that the Cantonal Court had not violated federal law by authorizing the publication of a correction regarding the impression given by the article, namely that the police had found 26 dogs crammed into a 32 m2 room during an inspection, whereas according to Ms. Wolf, her dogs normally had a 5,000 m2 plot and had only…