Key legal question
Whether the appeal against the refusal of party compensation remained justiciable after the related main case was remanded anew in the parallel proceeding.
Extracted holding
The appeal had become moot because the lower court would have to decide the cost consequences again in the remanded case.
Extracted reasoning
Once the municipality's appeal was upheld and the lower-court judgment set aside, the appealed cost issue no longer had an independent object; the appellate court therefore ordered the case struck from the docket as moot under Art. 32 BGG.