Question juridique clé
Whether procedural guarantees were violated because the cantonal judgment was signed and notified after 1 January 2009 and rendered by circulation.
Solution extraite
No violation of the right to a competent tribunal or of publicity of proceedings was established.
Motifs extraits
The case was analogous to an earlier Federal Supreme Court decision: circulation judgments rendered before 1 January 2009 and signed/notified later by the former cantonal insurance court did not breach Art. 30 Cst. or Art. 86 para. 2 LTF; moreover, no express request for public hearings had been made in the cantonal proceedings.