Question juridique clé
Whether the federal appeal was admissible despite the lower authority having refused to rule on interim measures.
Solution extraite
The appeal was inadmissible because the appellant sought only substantive relief and did not request that the lower judge be ordered to decide within a time limit.
Motifs extraits
A substantive request is admissible only if the lower authority entered into the merits; where there is a formal denial of justice, the appellant must ask for a deadline to be set for the authority to decide. That was not done here.