Key legal question
Whether the federal complaint met the reasoning requirements despite not addressing the cantonal court's decisive timeliness ground.
Extracted holding
The complaint did not address the decisive reasoning of the lower court and therefore failed to satisfy the federal substantiation requirements.
Extracted reasoning
The cantonal court had held the complaint late because the appellant and his counsel knew of the discontinuance on 17 September 2007 but did not appeal within ten days. The federal filing attacked unrelated matters and did not show why that timeliness finding violated federal law or fundamental rights.