Questão jurídica principal
Whether the federal appeal was admissible without a cantonal upper court decision in a case about individual special burden equalization payments.
Decisão extraída
The appeal was inadmissible because the challenged cantonal acts were not issued by a cantonal upper court, and the exception for decisions of predominantly political character did not apply.
Fundamentação extraída
Fiscal equalization payments are determined by concrete statutory and technical criteria, leaving no free political discretion; therefore Art. 86(3) BGG could not bypass the requirement of an upper cantonal court.