Key legal question
Whether the cantonal judgment and the circulation procedure violated Article 30 Cst. and Article 86(2) LTF.
Extracted holding
No violation was found; the objections were rejected for the same reasons as in a prior comparable Federal Supreme Court case.
Extracted reasoning
The case was materially identical to the earlier precedent; a judgment signed and notified after 1 January 2009 did not render the earlier tribunal incompetent, and no express request for public hearings had been made at cantonal level.