Key legal question
Whether the Administrative Court had jurisdiction over the complaint against the rent conciliation authority's non-entry decision
Extracted holding
No. The dispute concerned a civil-law rent conciliation matter, not an administrative matter under § 2 VRG, so the Administrative Court was not competent.
Extracted reasoning
The conciliation authority applies the Swiss Code of Obligations, not public law, when handling rent disputes. Its decision or finding of failed conciliation is therefore not an administrative act in a public-law matter. The applicable cantonal rules provided an appeal to the Amtsgerichtspräsident, not to the Administrative Court.