Facts
[W.] has appealed a decision of the Supervisory Authority for Debt Collection and Bankruptcy of the Canton of Solothurn dated March 18, 1998 to the Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Chamber of the Federal Supreme Court. With that decision, the cantonal supervisory authority did not enter into a complaint filed by [W.] in French.
Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court states that the appellant can file his legal brief with the Federal Supreme Court in French, but in the present case there is no reason to deviate from the principle that judgments of the Federal Supreme Court are written in the language of the contested decision. The appellant has not shown that he would be unable to understand a judgment written in German.
Different rules apply to correspondence with the cantonal authorities than to that with the federal authorities. The official language in the Canton of…