Key legal question
Whether the appeal was admissible against the decision of the St. Gallen Appeals Commission under Art. 86 BGG
Extracted holding
The appeal was not admissible because the Appeals Commission is not an upper cantonal court within the meaning of Art. 86 Abs. 2 BGG.
Extracted reasoning
The Commission is only final in certain subject areas, while its decisions can be appealed to the cantonal administrative court in many other fields and it is administratively supervised by that court. For Art. 86 Abs. 2 BGG, the decisive criterion is hierarchical independence for the whole cantonal jurisdiction, not only for the concrete matter.