Here’s another proto: {
Title: Calls with Memoranda
AI: 2
Co-authors: Aris, G, Alexis
Create a new Power-2 rule titled “Administrative Opinions”: {
An officer may publish an Administrative Opinion for a judicial case,
specifying a valid judgement for that case. Officers SHALL [SHOULD?] only
assign Administrative Opinions to cases with which eir office is primarily
concerned. An officer who has published an Administrative Opinion for an
unassigned case may, without objection, Administratively Close a case, causing
em to become the judge for the case and eir Administrative Opinion to become
the judgment for the case. The Arbitor SHOULD NOT assign a judge to a case
while proceedings to Administratively Close it are ongoing.
}
}
Gaelan
> On Feb 9, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Alexis Hunt <aler...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 17:59, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
> <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org <mailto:agora-discussion@agoranomic.org>>
> wrote:
>> I mean, didn’t we just do that, without any explicit rule at all? All we
>> need is an informal policy that we go with the officer’s interpretation
>> unless a CfJ decides otherwise.
>>
>> Alternatively, here’s a lightweight attempt to implement memoranda, either
>> as an alternative to the above informal mechanism or because it becomes a
>> dispute: I create the proposal {
>> Title: Calls for Memoranda
>> AI: 2
>> Co-authors: Aris, G
>>
>> Amend rule 991 by appending “All other things being equal, the Arbitor
>> SHOULD assign Calls for Judgement to the officer most concerned with its
>> content.” after the sentence "The Arbitor SHALL assign judges over time such
>> that all interested players have reasonably equal opportunities to judge.”
>> }
>>
>> Maybe if we wanted to get fancy, we could implement some way for the officer
>> to assign themselves, so they could note their interpretation in the CfJ log
>> simply by calling and resolving the CfJ in the same message.
>>
>> Gaelan
>
> I strongly oppose this. In my view, inquiry cases should generally
> *not* be the officer making the initial interpretation, at least not
> preferentially. Inquiry cases are effectively the fallback appeal
> mechanism, and should remain a balanced system. I would rather see a
> separate path for administrative interpretations.
>
> -Alexis
