Key legal question
Whether the constitutional complaint was admissible against the lower-instance judge’s decision as well as the cantonal appellate decision
Extracted holding
The complaint could not be directed against the lower-instance decision because the cantonal appellate court had reviewed the bias question with the same scope of review as the Federal Supreme Court.
Extracted reasoning
Only the final cantonal act is normally challengeable; a lower decision may be included only if the last cantonal instance could not examine all relevant questions with the same review power. Here the Obergericht examined the recusal request freely and therefore the complaint against the single judge’s decision was inadmissible.