Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court's allocation of party costs for the proceedings before the Regierungsrat and the Verwaltungsgericht was arbitrary or violated equality.
Decisão extraída
The cost allocation was within the court's broad discretion and was neither arbitrary nor unequal treatment.
Fundamentação extraída
Because the appellants lost only after a procedural defect by the government had been cured on appeal, it was permissible to charge them only two thirds of the opponents' party costs and to place one third on the government, while leaving their own party costs to themselves.