Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal to the cantonal government was filed in time despite the August contact with the immigration police.
Decisão extraída
The written appeal of 3 September 2001 was late; the cantonal court's interpretation of cantonal procedural law was not arbitrary.
Fundamentação extraída
The appeal period ran from 21 June 2001 and, even with the statutory summer suspension, expired on 21 August 2001. Under the applicable cantonal rules, only a written appeal to the government was valid; the mid-August oral approach to the immigration police did not preserve time.