I hereby submit the following proposals:
proposal: public judicial process
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Amend rule 591 to read
The judge of a CFJ judges it by publishing eir judgement, along
with any arguments, evidence, or other material that e considers
relevant.
For a trial judge, a judgement is exactly one of the following:
TRUE, FALSE, or DISMISSED.
Amend rule 1826 to read
A motion is a formal request made by a player to the judge of a
CFJ. A motion is made by announcement, which must clearly
identify the CFJ to which the motion applies.
The judge of a CFJ must either grant or deny each motion that
applies to that CFJ within five days of it being made. If a
judge fails to grant or deny an applicable motion within five
days of it being made, the Clerk of the Courts shall recuse the
judge and assign a new one. If a motion is made after a case
has been judged, and the original judge of that case is not
active or is not a player, then the Clerk of the Courts shall
assign a new judge.
A judge grants or denies a motion by publishing eir
determination, along with any arguments, evidence, or other
material that e considers relevant. The effect of granting a
motion depends on its nature, but generally amounts to requiring
the judge to perform as requested by the motion. A denied
motion has no further effect.
Amend rule 1805 by replacing the text
Appellate Orders are executed by being sent to the Clerk of the
Courts by the Lead Judge of a Board of Appeals, but do not take
effect until their publication by the Clerk of the Courts.
with
Appellate Orders are executed by being published by the Lead
Judge of a Board of Appeals.
[Makes everything in the judicial process work by announcement,
instead of indirectly via the CotC.]
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proposal: simplify judge selection
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Amend rule 1868 to read
Whenever a CFJ that has not been judged has no trial judge
assigned, the Clerk of the Courts shall as soon as possible
assign an eligible judge to it by announcement. The assigned
judge remains its trial judge until recused.
Every active player is eligible to be assigned as a trial judge
unless made ineligible by the rules. Entities other than active
players are always ineligible.
If the Clerk of the Courts errs in good faith by assigning an
ineligible judge then the assignment stands. In this case, the
Clerk of the Courts may recuse the judge by announcement
accompanied by a description of eir error.
Repeal rules 698 and 2133.
[Puts the important bits of the three rules into one shorter rule.
Leaves out the crud, in particular R698's elaborate procedure for
situations that are much better handled by the new form of R1871.]
Amend rule 1871 by replacing the text "all open CFJs without a Trial
Judge" with "all CFJs awaiting trial judge assignment".
[The definition of "open CFJ" from R1868 was too restrictive. This
does better without any special terminology.]
Amend rule 1826 by replacing the text "after a case is closed" with
"after a case has been judged".
[The term "closed CFJ" has also gone away.]
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proposal: speaker as an office
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Retitle rule 402 to "Office of Speaker" and amend it to read
The speaker is an office.
If an active player who is not the speaker has won the game
within the past week, e may become the speaker, thus removing
any previous speaker from the office, by announcement, unless
someone else has become speaker within the preceding 90 days.
If the legality of an attempted installation of this type is not
challenged within a week, then it is effective even if later
found to be illegal.
A speaker who became speaker within the preceding 90 days cannot
be replaced by Agoran Consent if e is one of those whose
objections are counted in the Agoran Consent procedure.
[Making the speaker an office means we can make use of officer
defaults elsewhere, such as the IADoP reporting the officeholder.
Change installation by "any player" to self-installation to prevent
someone becoming speaker involuntarily. More explication of the
restrictions on replacing a speaker. Drop the "inattentive speaker"
bit because the speakership is no longer a critical administrative
office.]
Amend rule 1006 by replacing the text "an Officer or the Speaker" with
"an officer".
[With the speaker being an officer, this is now redundant.]
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-zefram
