spoon-business: RFJ 30 Ruling

[Jeff Schroeder <jschrodr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The ruling on RFJ 30 as stated below:

> > Statement:
> > It was possible to make a Request for Judgment before the
> > 11th of November 2000.

the statement is ruled TRUE.

Rule 234/0 at the time read: "A Request for Judgment is a Personal Order. 
An Agent may, at any time, initiate judicial proceedings in any matter by 
making a Request for Judgment. That Agent shall be known as the Plaintiff 
with regard to the Request. A Request for Judgment consists of a Statement 
to be judged, and analysis as the Plaintiff deems appropriate. The implicit 
recipient is the Administrator."  Rule 216/0 also reads: "A Private Order 
is any Order that is not Legislative, Motive, Administrative, or Judicial."

A RFJ is stated to be a personal order, and rule 216 does not disagree by 
saying that it is not a private order.  [[Double negatives are hard to 
follow sometimes!!]]  There is no explicit definition for Personal Order in 
the rules.  Nonetheless, I can find nothing in the rules that would make 
the statement false in that there has always been a method for making a RFJ 
since the game began.

The spirit of the game also seems to confirm this in that due to any 
possible (not found by this Judge for this Judgement) technicality that 
might render the statement false, and for creating a precedent, the power 
of the Judge to overrule a large array of Judgements via a technicality 
must be limited.  I will stop short of making a Judicial Order to this 
effect and let this Judgement stand as a precedent.

jeff


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