Key legal question
Whether the public law appeal remained pending after the Federal Court allowed the reform appeal and reversed the cantonal judgment.
Extracted holding
The public law appeal had become moot because the parallel reform appeal resulted in a new dispositive ruling on the merits.
Extracted reasoning
Once the Federal Court had, in the reform appeal, rejected the underlying claims and sent the case back only on costs, the challenged cantonal judgment no longer had independent significance; the public law appeal therefore lacked subject matter.