Key legal question
Whether the constitutional appeal was sufficiently substantiated under Art. 178 No. 3 of the Organic Act.
Extracted holding
The appeal was not sufficiently reasoned because the appellant did not set out the grounds in the appeal itself and could not cure this defect by referring to a prior cantonal cassation complaint.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court held that the constitutional appeal must, within the time limit, contain the requests and their reasons. It is not for the court to search the cantonal file for incorporated arguments or to study lengthy prior pleadings that may concern unrelated issues; the appellant must state in the appeal the reasons for the alleged constitutional violation.