Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Federal Supreme Court had jurisdiction over the appeal against the cantonal concession decision.
Decisão extraída
The appeal was inadmissible because the challenged decision was not a final decision of a cantonal upper judicial authority; the proper forum was the Cantonal Administrative Court.
Fundamentação extraída
Although hydropower concessions have a political component, they also regulate justiciable rights and duties, especially residual-flow issues. Therefore the Landrat could not be treated as a direct cantonal instance under the exception for decisions with predominantly political character.