>The fact is, with few exceptions, our legal system is built around the >concept of openness of the adjudication process -- there is no "right to >secret back-room tribunals". If you are an airline pilot, a train engineer, >a bus driver or, yes, even just an ordinary private citizen, have an >accident while on or off the job, and you can be summarily suspended without >pay, and the results of your drug tests will be made public. No "right of >confidentiality here" is there? That is the legal precedent. >What we're talking about here is not criminal, nor even civil violations of >law. We're talking about is the administrative rules of a sporting >federation. Those rules can be changed at any time to reflect spirit of our >open legal system -- if only our leadership would have the will to do so. The IAAF tried your argument in the Butch Reynolds case- and lost. RT
