Key legal question
Whether the appeal against the advance-of-costs order was admissible as a civil-law appeal to the Federal Supreme Court.
Extracted holding
No. The appellant challenged only the first-instance order, not the last cantonal decision, so the Federal Supreme Court could not enter into the merits.
Extracted reasoning
A civil appeal lies only against decisions of the last cantonal instance or the Federal Administrative Court. Since the brief attacked only the district court's order and not the cantonal appellate judgment, the statutory admissibility requirement was not met.