Key legal question
Whether the appeal against the cantonal advance-payment order was admissible before the Federal Supreme Court.
Extracted holding
The appeal was inadmissible because the appellant did not first exhaust the available cantonal remedy for legal aid; the complaint merely sought exemption from the advance payment without challenging the legal basis for the order.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 86 Abs. 1 lit. d BGG, only final cantonal decisions are appealable. A request to waive an advance payment must be made to the competent cantonal authority, normally the body requesting payment, under cantonal procedural rules, before coming to federal court. The cantonal remedy had to be exhausted.