The Case 34, Savaree-Ruess vs. Carnes et Al, Hearing has been postponed until Wednesday next week pursuant to a motion by the Defence.

I stopped by the Student Government Administrative Office (SGAO) today and found Plaintiff Savaree-Ruess, Defence Counsel Powers, Associate Defence Counsel Harms and ASUCD Advisor Tucker all hanging out. ( Read more... )

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   So reportedly newly appointed ASUCD comptroller Kai Savaree-Ruess, having completed his crusade to combine ASUCD's two massive volumes of bylaws into one hulking uber-volume of bylaws*, and having just finished with budget hearings, has now turned his attention to the Court. At the Internal Affairs Commission on Monday he made a presentation ( Read more... )

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   My friend's page has recently begun displaying a bit weirdly. The grey background is new but not bad, however for some reason comments are now listed above entries instead of below them. Investigating this matter, I discovered that my account had been changed to the infamous S2 format. This means that TAGS work now for this livejournal. ( Read more... )

   I oftentimes find myself wishing I wasn't part of the highest judicial authority in ASUCD -- wishing that there was some appeal above me. Unlike everyone else, I don't get the priviledge of being vindicated by being proved right by higher court.
   Former senator Darth Lloyd says "The Court's improper action was the reason for removing its ( Read more... )

Dubious Adventures with Senators
   Yesterday, Thursday, three ASUCD Senators and the Chief Justice were found on the fifth floor of the MU and told to leave by an unidentified official. Ironically the individuals in question constitute one fourth of the governming board which officially owns the Memorial Union, and the head of the branch that ( Read more... )

   Today the ASUCD Elections Committee had to answer to two complaints lodged against them before a Student Judicial Affairs board. There were two hearings, with a ten minute recess between them. The board consisted of approximately several students from the SJA board. The Plaintiffs were “the Orwellians ( Read more... )

Current State of the Cases   So here is how this all played out so far simply by following jurisprudential theories: by filing the cases the Plaintiffs asserted that the defendants named were under our jurisdiction; we accepted the cases based on the merits of the cases and proceeded to schedule Hearings; one of the Defendants formally notified us ( Read more... )

   So last night I was enveloped in a huge cloud of law, ASUCD legal matters, federal rules of civil procedure and judicial concepts. I think I've emerged from all that mostly unscathed only to fall into a pit of quorum problems.

Today I set up a DeviantArt account and spent a pile of time uploading photos to it.

Picture of the Day

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