Facts
The petitioner ([A.] ) received an interim invoice from the Industrial Works of Basel (IWB) dated 19 May 2023 for CHF 2,104.-- for electricity, gas and water supply. She did not lodge an objection against this invoice. After two reminders (19 July 2023 and 2 August 2023), the second reminder included a threat of supply interruption and granted her a right to be heard. By order dated 23 August 2023, the IWB ordered the interruption of energy supply and water provision and required the petitioner to grant IWB employees access to the house installations and measuring devices from 12 September 2023 onwards.
The petitioner appealed against this order to the Appellate Court of the Canton of Basel-Stadt as administrative court, which dismissed her appeal by judgment dated 7 February 2024. Against this judgment, the petitioner filed an appeal with the Federal Supreme Court on 22 March 2024, which was not admitted due to insufficient legal grounds (Art. 42 para. 2 and Art. 106 para. 2 FSCA) (judgment 2C_147/2024).
On 30 March 2024 (date of posting), the petitioner filed a petition for revision against judgment 2C_147/2024 with the Federal Supreme Court, which concerns the subject matter of the interruption of energy supply and water provision.
Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court first examined the admissibility of the petition for revision. Pursuant to Art. 61 FSCA, a judgment of the Federal Supreme Court becomes final on the day it is rendered, and a renewed review is generally excluded. A revision is only possible on the grounds exhaustively listed in Art. 121 et seq. FSCA. The petitioner for revision must expressly invoke such a ground and demonstrate in what respect the judgment subject to revision suffers from a defect relevant to revision (Art. 42 paras. 1 and 2 FSCA).
In the present case, the petition for revision did not meet the requirements for grounds. The petitioner neither expressly nor implicitly invoked any of the grounds for revision listed in Art. 121 et seq. FSCA. Her submissions related to an accident at the workplace and associated social insurance and compensation claims against her employer. However, these submissions had no discernible connection to the subject matter of proceedings 2C_147/2024, which the petitioner had already been informed of in the judgment under revision (cf. para. 2.4 of judgment 2C_147/2024).
The Federal Supreme Court found…