Congratulations to Tim Coady, the new Chief Justice of ASUCD! He should be being confirmed approximately right now at Senate. I will remain an associate Justice for exactly a week until I hit four years on the bench on the 25th.

The Case 37 hearing has been postponed a week to the 31st. It has been officially announced that Case 39 was ( Read more... )

   The Opinion for Case 34 has been published   Case revolved around dispute as to whether if a closed session was called on Controller Savaree-Ruess, and Savaree-Ruess motions for it to be open, can then-senate-candidate Peake who was involved in an altercation with Savaree-Ruess, require that it be closed (based on ¶3 of the relevant section, ( Read more... )

   I am about to leave for San Diego, from where a number of us will head down to Porto Nuevo, Mexico, for our traditional New Years adventure (though its always been in the snow at Tahoe previously). Expect tales of adventure upon our return ( Read more... )

   Last week I was sleeping in my bed wearing a hooded sweatshirt over a longsleeved shirt. This weekend it just got too cold to sleep or work in my room and I moved out to the living-room couch, where it was significantly warmer (though there I have to contend with my roommate randomly coming out to ramble at me about obscure aspects of geology ( Read more... )

The ASUCD Gulag
   After a 2+ hour debate in which two people cried, the ASUCD Senate finally came to an agreement: they would fork out $1,000 to send the controversial Steven Ostrowski to do hard labour in another country.

Indictment Act   Judicial Proposal 7 was finally passed (12-0-0) as Senate Bill 35. To have the ASUCD Senate consider the ( Read more... )

The Case 34 Hearing will now be taking place in the Moot Court, UCD Law School. Same time as before (tomorrow, Wednesday, 12/06).

Directions:
Here you can see the law school, King Hall, on a campus map. It is behind Mrak from our usual perspective, on the side closer to the Mondavi center. (Those not from Davis can get a good laugh from the ( Read more... )

   The Case 34 Plaintiff Brief is unchanged from last week, and the Defence Brief just came in. I recommend you read them, they're concise (1.5 and 1 pages respectively) and its relatively easy to grasp what the case is about and therefore rather what exactly it is we do in the ASUCD Supreme Court ( Read more... )

   Court meeting this evening. We (1) Set the time & place for the Case 34 Hearing as next Wednesday at 7:10pm, MU Mee Rm; (2) Granted the Plaintiff's motion to have two counsels speak for each side rather than one; (3) Elected a new Vice Chief Justice -- Tim Coady; (4) I read the new "Presiding Officer Suppliment" (to the Judicial Handbook which ( Read more... )

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... )

   I am officially back now as far as the Court is concerned, and some noteworthy things have occured in the mean time.

Case 33 Laabs vs the ASUCD Senate has been rejected.

Case 34 Savaree-Ruess vs the ASUCD Senate (Carnes et Al actually) has been accepted.

Case 34 Plaintiff's Brief has been filed. Defence brief will be due tomorrow. The ( Read more... )