Key legal question
Whether the Federal Supreme Court could hear a constitutional complaint against the district court's interim-measures decision without prior cantonal review.
Extracted holding
No; the complaint was inadmissible because the challenged decision was not final in the cantonal sense and the alleged arbitrariness could still have been raised by a cantonal Rechtsverweigerungsbeschwerde.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 86 OG, constitutional complaints require exhaustion of cantonal remedies. Since St. Gallen law, after the 1999 amendment excluding appeals against interim measures in divorce proceedings, again allowed a cantonal Rechtsverweigerungsbeschwerde, the appellant had to use that remedy first.