From: To: agora-off Subject: OFF: CFJ 1172 Judged TRUE Date: Saturday, November 13, 1999 11:06 AM ====================================================================== CFJ 1172 The Private Orders issued by Murphy in the message with subject "BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal" dated Sun, 31 Oct 1999 were improperly executed. ====================================================================== Called by: Crito Judge: Chuck Judgement: TRUE Judge selection: Eligible: Chuck, elJefe, Elysion, harvel, Kolja, Lee, Michael, Murphy, oerjan, Palnatoke, Peekee, Schneidster, t, Wes Not eligible: Caller: Crito Barred: - Had their turn: Blob Already served: - Defaulted: - By request: - On Hold: Steve ====================================================================== History: Called by Crito: 01 Nov 1999 13:42:51 -0500 Assigned to Chuck: 04 Nov 1999 15:33:51 -0800 Judged TRUE by Chuck: 12 Nov 1999 10:56:47 -0600 Judgement Distributed: As of this message ===================================================================== Caller's Arguments: Rule 1809/0 (Power=1) Appeal of Administrative and Private Orders ... Upon a judicial finding that an Administrative or Private Order was improperly or invalidly executed, the Judge so finding shall vacate that Order. ... The Rules do not define "improperly", which essentially leaves it up to the Courts to determine the validity of Administrative and Private Orders. IMO, it is in the best interests of the game for the Courts to place firm restrictions on Players' ability to issue Private Orders, requiring there to be some compelling reasons for a Private Order to be valid (such as an agreement between Players) and requiring the Order's commands be commensurate with such reasons. In this particular case, there were no prior agreements between any of the Payees in these Orders and Murphy regarding compensation for the publication of the Agoran Weekly Journal. Since the publication was voluntarily posted to a Public Forum, it seems to me that Murphy has abrogated any rights to compensation for eir efforts by this action and there is no other reason for which Murphy is entitled to a payment of .1 Indulgences from any other Player. ====================================================================== Evidence attached by the Caller: ====================================================================== Judge's Arguments: I am inclined to find private orders to be improper unless there is positive evidence that they are proper (for example, I might consider a private order made in accordance with a private agreement to be proper). Since I have seen no such evidence, I believe the orders were improper. ======================================================================