Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court rightly awarded party compensation despite partial mootness and partial withdrawal.
Extracted holding
Yes. The respondent remained entitled to compensation because the original appeal had substantial prospects of success on the contested deprivation-of-asset issue, and the modest housing-rent argument did not justify a reduction.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 61 lit. g ATSG, compensation is based on importance and difficulty, not the amount in dispute. A right to compensation can survive mootness if the pre-mootness prospects justified the appeal. The legal work was driven mainly by the asset-forfeiture issue; the withdrawn rent argument was marginal.