The court ruled against Business Weekly, holding that it had "through its over-emotional attacks on the plaintiff's character published written criticism that was malicious in intent."
法官並判決，商業週刊邀約的外稿作者，以筆名指稱蔡兆陽「氣量狹小」、「趕盡殺絕」、「刻薄寡恩」等字詞，「多屬情緒性對自訴人施以人身攻擊之言論，難謂屬出諸善意之適當評論。」