Questão jurídica principal
Whether the civil-law appeal was admissible despite the value threshold because it raised a question of fundamental importance.
Decisão extraída
The alleged effect of lack of passive standing on the nullity of the decision is only an application of settled case law and is not a question of fundamental importance.
Fundamentação extraída
The Federal Court interpreted the notion of a fundamental legal question restrictively and held that ordinary in-content defects, such as passive standing, usually affect only appealability, not nullity, except in exceptionally serious cases.