Key legal question
Whether the federal court could review a cantonal refusal implementing a Federal Council instruction on marriage proclamation timing
Extracted holding
The complaint was not admissible before the Federal Court because the challenged cantonal decision merely applied a Federal Council instruction; the matter fell within the Federal Council's supervisory competence.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 178 No. 1 OG allows the state-law complaint only against cantonal decrees and decisions. Here, annulment of the cantonal decision would effectively annul the federal instruction itself in the concrete case. Moreover, the dispute concerned an administrative and procedural question about marriage proclamation, not the constitutional right to marry.