Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal to the cantonal upper supervisory authority was filed within the statutory 10-day period
Decisão extraída
The Federal Court held that the timeliness question had to be re-examined because the appellant produced postal evidence suggesting filing on 1 March 2004, not 2 March 2004.
Fundamentação extraída
The lower court relied on the dispatch date of 2 March 2004, but the appellant relied on postal receipt data and a possible postal dating error caused by the leap year. This required clarification by the cantonal authority.