Key legal question
Whether the Federal Court could review the Glarus tax authority’s application of cantonal tax law.
Extracted holding
The Court would not review the interpretation and application of cantonal tax law, as that is for the cantonal authorities; it could only examine constitutional rights.
Extracted reasoning
As a state court, the Federal Court lacked competence over mere cantonal-law application, though the Glarus commission’s power to make a new assessment followed logically from its statutory power to raise entries it found too low.