Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was filed within the statutory time limit.
Extracted holding
No. The appeal period started on 2010-08-25 and expired on 2010-09-23; the appeal was only handed to the post on 2010-09-24.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 48(1), Art. 100(1), and Art. 44(1) BGG, the decisive date was the postal handover date shown by the envelope postmark, which made the filing late.