Key legal question
Admissibility and standing for a subsidiary constitutional complaint against the communal naturalization decision
Extracted holding
The complaint was admissible because no ordinary federal remedy was available, the decision was cantonal last instance, and the appellants had standing based on alleged violations of constitutional rights.
Extracted reasoning
Naturalization decisions are acts of law application; the applicants were entitled to invoke constitutional rights, especially equality and religious freedom, even without a substantive entitlement to naturalization.