Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal met the reasoning requirements of Art. 42 BGG and was admissible.
Extracted holding
The appeal did not satisfy the mandatory requirements because it failed to engage with the determinative reasons of the cantonal judgment and did not show any violation of federal law.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 42(1)-(2) BGG, the appeal must include requests and a reasoned explanation; merely appellatory criticism is insufficient. The appellant's submissions of 14 and 18 January 2013 did not address the decisive reasoning of the lower court and therefore were not a valid remedy.