Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Federal Supreme Court had functional jurisdiction over the filing as a civil law complaint
Decisão extraída
The Court lacked functional jurisdiction because the cantonal judgment, rendered after 1 January 2011, had to be challenged by appeal to the cantonal appellate court under the ZPO.
Fundamentação extraída
Although the subject matter falls within civil law, Art. 75(2) BGG requires a decision by a higher cantonal court acting as appeal instance. Since the first-instance cantonal decision was issued only after the entry into force of the ZPO, the proper remedy was appeal under Art. 308 ff. ZPO, not a civil law complaint to the Federal Supreme Court.