Key legal question
Whether the cantonal appellate judgment was void for formal defects and violation of the right to a lawful judge.
Extracted holding
No. The complaint did not show a violation of Art. 30 BV or arbitrary application of cantonal procedural rules; a circular decision and signature by the court clerk were permissible under cantonal law.
Extracted reasoning
The constitutional guarantee concerns lawful composition and competence, not the detailed form of cantonal procedures. Questions of signature formalities and circulation procedure are governed primarily by cantonal law and were not shown to be arbitrary.