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JeremyKoo — 2009-11-18 21:24:09

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	+ + ["Users/JeremyKoo" Someone] has created an [wiki:court:"Front Page" ASUCD Court wiki] in an attempt to improve the institutional memory of the Court.

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MissyWhitney — 2009-10-14 14:21:53

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	+ * Associate Justice David Karimi + * Associate Justice Daniel Maroon

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maxtran — 2009-04-29 00:36:23

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- The ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1995 as the Supreme Court through the Democracy at Davis constitutional amendment. Just like in the federal government, the ASUCD Senate was empowered to create inferior courts, like an elections court, whose decisions could be appealed to the ASUCD Supreme Court. However, this power was never used. In 1996, over the objections of then ASUCD President ["Peter Nguyen"] and ASUCD Vice President Aaron Bloom, the ASUCD Senate reduced to stipends of members of the ASUCD Supreme Court, citing a lack of activity. Nguyen and Bloom, as founders of the new system of government, pointed out that the Court was a passive branch of government which could only respond to cases filed by plaintiffs and that it should be accorded co-equal status to the other 2 branches. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)	+ The ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1995 as the Supreme Court through the Democracy at Davis constitutional amendment. Just like in the federal government, the ASUCD Senate was empowered to create inferior courts, like an elections court, whose decisions could be appealed to the ASUCD Supreme Court. However, this power was never used. In 1996, over the objections of then ASUCD President ["Peter Nguyen"] and ASUCD Vice President Aaron Bloom, the ASUCD Senate reduced the stipends of members of the ASUCD Supreme Court, citing a lack of activity. Nguyen and Bloom, as founders of the new system of government, pointed out that the Court was a passive branch of government which could only respond to cases filed by plaintiffs and that it should be accorded co-equal status to the other 2 branches. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)

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maxtran — 2009-04-08 04:02:09

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- The ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1995 as the Supreme Court through the Democracy at Davis constitutional amendment. Just like in the federal government, the ASUCD Senate was empowered to create an inferior courts whose decisions could be appealed to the ASUCD Supreme Court. However, this power was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)	+ The ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1995 as the Supreme Court through the Democracy at Davis constitutional amendment. Just like in the federal government, the ASUCD Senate was empowered to create inferior courts, like an elections court, whose decisions could be appealed to the ASUCD Supreme Court. However, this power was never used. In 1996, over the objections of then ASUCD President ["Peter Nguyen"] and ASUCD Vice President Aaron Bloom, the ASUCD Senate reduced to stipends of members of the ASUCD Supreme Court, citing a lack of activity. Nguyen and Bloom, as founders of the new system of government, pointed out that the Court was a passive branch of government which could only respond to cases filed by plaintiffs and that it should be accorded co-equal status to the other 2 branches. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)

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maxtran — 2009-04-08 03:57:59

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- Legend has it, that the ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1994 as the Supreme Court, with an Inferior Court as well, which was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)	+ The ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1995 as the Supreme Court through the Democracy at Davis constitutional amendment. Just like in the federal government, the ASUCD Senate was empowered to create an inferior courts whose decisions could be appealed to the ASUCD Supreme Court. However, this power was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)

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maxtran — 2009-04-08 03:53:37

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	+ * Robert Clarke, first Chief Justice appointed by ASUCD President ["Peter Nguyen"] following passage of the Democracy at Davis constitutional amendment which established the Court + * Megan Kern, second Chief Justice
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	+ * Geoffrey DeBoskey

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RyanMeyerhoff — 2009-02-23 00:47:09

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	+ * Michael Reiser + * Mona Sharif

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RyanMeyerhoff — 2009-02-22 19:08:13

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- * Associate Justice Michael Reiser - * Associate Justice Mona Sharif
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	+ * Associate Justice Ryan Meyerhoff

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BrentLaabs — 2008-11-17 15:48:27

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	+ * If so, I was once an Attorney at LOL. --["Users/BrentLaabs"]

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StevenDaubert — 2008-11-17 12:54:44

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	+ ------ + ''2008-11-17 12:54:44'' [[nbsp]] ASUCD court is kinda like internet court? --["Users/StevenDaubert"]

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MissyWhitney — 2008-11-16 23:26:24

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- If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] Bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however.	+ If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] Bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:00pm on Wednesdays in the Mee Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however.
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	+ * Associate Justice Rudy Ornelas + * Associate Justice Filipp Ovchinnikov

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AmyHartstein — 2008-10-31 09:31:22

Not sure if Ari is still on the Court.

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- If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however.	+ If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] Bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however.
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- * Chief Justice ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady] - * Vice Chief Justice ["Joe Harney"] - * Associate Justice ["Michael Aguilera"] - * Associate Justice ["Users/OraSraboy" Ora Sraboyants] - * Associate Justice John Wheat - * Associate Justice Del Bohner	+ * Chief Justice ["Users/MissyWhitney" Missy Lyla Whitney]
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	+ * Associate Justice John King + * Associate Justice Michael Reiser + * Associate Justice Mona Sharif +
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- * ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke]	+ * ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady] + * ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] +
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- ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter.	+ ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, was replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter.
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- Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is ["Michael Aguilera"]. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority.	+ Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority.

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BrentLaabs — 2008-09-27 13:10:15

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- ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter.	+ ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter.
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- Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is junior ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari.	+ Chief Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is junior ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari.
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- In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office.	+ In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office.

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BrentLaabs — 2008-09-06 15:19:34

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BrentLaabs — 2008-09-06 15:17:57

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- There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the ["Move to D1" D1] Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear.	+ There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the ["Move to D1" D1] Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear.
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- In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office.	+ In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office.
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- Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke's] computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that.	+ Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice ["Users/KrisFricke" Fricke's] computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that.
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- '''Case # 38''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski] v. Rivera II__, alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more.	+ '''Case # 38''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Users/Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski] v. Rivera II__, alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more.
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- ''2006-04-27 22:06:21'' [[nbsp]] I like to just drop them there without summaries initially so people have to actually read them. (= It'll require some craftiness to reduce the size to summary level without losing too much of the coherence. --["KrisFricke"]	+ ''2006-04-27 22:06:21'' [[nbsp]] I like to just drop them there without summaries initially so people have to actually read them. (= It'll require some craftiness to reduce the size to summary level without losing too much of the coherence. --["Users/KrisFricke"]
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- ''2006-12-25 01:39:48'' [[nbsp]] I am cool. --["ZakirKhan"]	+ ''2006-12-25 01:39:48'' [[nbsp]] I am cool. --["Users/ZakirKhan"]
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- ''2007-01-12 15:42:00'' [[nbsp]] Does this mean that Joe will most certainly have the chief justice position? --["SteveOstrowski"] - * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a ["ASUCD Senate"] Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"]	+ ''2007-01-12 15:42:00'' [[nbsp]] Does this mean that Joe will most certainly have the chief justice position? --["Users/SteveOstrowski"] + * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a ["ASUCD Senate"] Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["Users/MaxMikalonis"]
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- ''2007-01-12 19:33:35'' [[nbsp]] Nope, the position changes every few weeks. --["KevinPowers"]	+ ''2007-01-12 19:33:35'' [[nbsp]] Nope, the position changes every few weeks. --["Users/KevinPowers"]

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TimCoady — 2008-04-06 21:38:32

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- Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is sophomore ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari.	+ Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is junior ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari.

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WilliamLewis — 2008-01-31 23:55:40

restoring more fricke goodness now that mr. butthurt is gone.

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- In 2001 the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court disqualified the ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe]/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD"] party. Bledsoe & Beaman then threatened to sue ASUCD and the Court consequently reversed its ruling and allowed ["Tiqula Bledsoe"] to take office. Thereafter Bledsoe had "Supreme" removed from the Courts name, "Justices" changed to "members," and removed the Court's jurisdiction over elections. Bledsoe would go on to be remembered for years to come for an administration marked by capricious misuse of ASUCD funds.	+ In 2001 the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court disqualified the ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe]/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD"] party for "massive cheating worse than Ukraine in 2004" (they were very prescient back then). ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe], self proclaimed "["Black Caesar" Black Caesar of ASUCD]", then threatened to sue ["ASUCD"], the Court, the ["UCD Administration" Administration], and anyone else remotely involved back into the stone age. Under threat of this impending legal holocaust, the Court reversed its ruling and allowed "the Reverend" ["Tiqula Bledsoe"] to take office. Like the Romans razing Carthage to the ground and salting its former soil, ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe] Maximus wanted to triumphantly squash his nemesis, the judiciary, and had its name changed legally to the ["ASUCD"] Court, and extralegally to Student Court, with Chairpersons and Members (see Identity Crisis, below). Also, and very significantly, all matters relating to ["ASUCD Elections" elections] were removed from the Court's jurisdiction. Having succeeded in this he then treated himself to the spoils of ["ASUCD"], using government funds to pay for limos and parking tickets (not an exaggeration). Bledsoe would go on to be remembered for years to come for an administration marked by capricious misuse of ASUCD funds.

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WilliamLewis — 2008-01-22 00:40:43

Revert to version 142 (Revert to cooler version).

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BrentLaabs — 2008-01-21 16:47:57

Revert to version 140 (I'm a fan too. Revert from iphone w00t!).

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JacksTrade — 2008-01-21 15:22:46

Not Bledsoe, just a fan.

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BrentLaabs — 2008-01-21 15:21:26

Revert to version 138 (completely accurate representation).

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JacksTrade — 2008-01-21 15:19:44

innacurate representation

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KrisFricke — 2008-01-21 13:15:00

Welcome to the wiki Bledsoe. ;) Cleaned up disputed section.

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JacksTrade — 2008-01-21 11:48:36

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ElleWeber — 2008-01-21 11:39:43

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- deleted	+ As the ["ASUCD Constitution"] phrases it: "The judicial authority of the ["ASUCD"] shall be vested in one ["ASUCD"] Court ...and the ["Student Judicial Affairs"]/["Campus Judicial Board"]." The latter only deals with ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. + + The ["ASUCD"] Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the ["ASUCD Senate"] and exiled to the ["ASUCD"] Gulag in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a two-thirds vote of the ["ASUCD Senate"] after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidentally there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members. + + If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however. + + [[TableOfContents]] + + = Membership = + The Court currently consists of: + * Chief Justice ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady] + * Vice Chief Justice ["Joe Harney"] + * Associate Justice ["Michael Aguilera"] + * Associate Justice ["Users/OraSraboy" Ora Sraboyants] + * Associate Justice John Wheat + * Associate Justice Del Bohner + * Associate Justice Tiffany Setters + * Associate Justice Russell Manning + * Associate Justice ["Arie Van Gemeren"] + + + ==Former Chief Justices== + * ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] + + ==Former Associate Justices== + * ["KevinPowers" Kevin Powers] + * ["Joe Harney"] + * ["Michael Aguilera"] + + ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter. + + Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is ["Michael Aguilera"]. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority. + + = Current Business = + + '''Case 43''' - Not sure v. Not sure - Almost exact duplicate of Case 42. + + '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ["ASUCD"] logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ["ASUCD"] (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ["ASUCD"] fees at the time of the hearing because of a financial aid screwup). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case on such short notice. + + Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is sophomore ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari. + + = History = + == The Prehistoric Court == + The pre-history of the Court is shrouded in myths and legends as record keeping in ["ASUCD"] seems to be shockingly bad. In fact, though some recent Opinions have been submitted to ["SGAO"] multiple times as word documents, and they even printed them out and posted them, they still profess not to have them on record anymore. + + Legend has it, that the ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1994 as the Supreme Court, with an Inferior Court as well, which was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001) + + In 2001 the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court disqualified the ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe]/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD"] party for "massive cheating worse than Ukraine in 2004" (they were very prescient back then). ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe], self proclaimed "["Black Caesar" Black Caesar of ASUCD]", then threatened to sue ["ASUCD"], the Court, the ["UCD Administration" Administration], and anyone else remotely involved back into the stone age. Under threat of this impending legal holocaust, the Court reversed its ruling and allowed "the Reverend" ["Tiqula Bledsoe"] to take office. Like the Romans razing Carthage to the ground and salting its former soil, ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe] Maximus wanted to triumphantly squash his nemesis, the judiciary, and had its name changed legally to the ["ASUCD"] Court, and extralegally to Student Court, with Chairpersons and Members (see Identity Crisis, below). Also, and very significantly, all matters relating to ["ASUCD Elections" elections] were removed from the Court's jurisdiction. Having succeeded in this he then treated himself to the spoils of ["ASUCD"], using government funds to pay for limos and parking tickets (not an exaggeration). + + There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the ["Move to D1" D1] Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear. + + In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office. + + Under the ["KrisFricke" Fricke] Administration, the Court considered six cases the following year. + + == The Identity Crisis == + In 2001 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed changing the name of the principal judicial organ of ["ASUCD"] from "["ASUCD"] Supreme Court" to "["ASUCD"] Court." In the copies of the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] and bylaws produced by ["SGAO"], the change was rendered to "Student Court," and in an overzealous rampage of derision, they proceeded to change every instance of "Justice" to "Member," and "Chief Justice" to "Chairperson," among other things. + + There's a poorly formatted [http://www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2003/11/20/FrontPage/Student.Court.Looks.To.The.Future-1315883.shtml?norewrite200604150360&sourcedomain=www.californiaaggie.com Aggie Article] about conflicts between ["Sara Henry" President Henry] and the Court. + + After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erroneous and that this constitutes a continuing erroneous behavior until it is changed in the copies that the ["SGAO"] is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ["ASUCD"] Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from all ["ASUCD"] bylaws, but the term remains in verbal use by more antiquated individuals. + + == Questionable Importance == + During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ["ASUCD"] had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] said he saw no role in ["ASUCD"] for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both. + + ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] was subsequently appointed to the Court. + + = Cases = + Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke's] computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that. + The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ["ASUCD"] case in arguing a future one. + + These documents are not copyrighted (government documents cannot be copyrighted. This applies to ["ASUCD"] documents when ["ASUCD"] is acting as a government, and don't let them tell you otherwise), but of course disseminating an altered & misleading version of one of these would be illegal. Official copies of these may be (officially should be) available at the ["SGAO"] office on the 3rd floor of the ["MU"] + + '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - __Ricky v. ["Paloma Perez" Perez]__ - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" + '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - __Ahmed-Falol et Al v. ["Sara Henry" Henry]__ - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. + '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - __["Users/MikeSiminitus" Michael Siminitus] v. ["Mark Champagne"]__. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which ["Mark Champagne" Mr. Champagne] disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees. + '''Case # 25''' - Spring 2004 - Filed a day after the above, it involved essentially the same Plaintiffs and Defendants. It was discussed at the same special hearing as above and involved in the same opinion. See above. + '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - __["Joseph Harney" Harney] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ["ASUCD"] Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the ["ASUCD Senate"] retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. + '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ["ASUCD"] web-pages must be hosted on the ["ASUCD"] server and approved by ["ASUCD"] unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ["ASUCD"] unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. + '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. The ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Alleging that ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that ["ASUCD Senate"] cannot compel the Court to drop a case. + '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. The ["ASUCD"] Senate__ - Alleging that the closed session which the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ["ASUCD Constitution"] or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). + '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __["Rawi Nanakul" Nanakul] v. ["SGAO"]__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modeled after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States US Federal Gov't] after all) would have the executive office (the ["ASUCD President"]) responsible for carrying out legislation, but ["SGAO"] is named as the Defendant, and ["ASUCD"] tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major ["Student Focus" Focus] campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm. + '''Case # 33''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Case [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor33-02cb-cert.doc declined] by the Court. + '''Case # 34''' - Fall 2006 - __["Kai Savaree-Ruess" Savaree-Ruess] v. ["Genna Carnes Carnes] et Al__ - Accepted, hearing held. See Current Business above. - Regarding the definition of "parties" to a closed session. + '''Case # 35''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Darnell Holloway" Holloway]__ - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], consideration pending the completion of Case 34. - Regarding the appointment of ["Steve Ostrowski"] to an ["Academic Senate"] committee. + '''Case # 38''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski] v. Rivera II__, alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more. + '''["ASUCD Court Case 41" Case # 41]''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski], ["Ronald Payne" Payne]__ + + = Judicial Directives = + Because it is important for judicial bodies to follow clear procedures, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States United States Supreme Court] has drafted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as rules for their own proceedings, the California Judicial Council headed by the Chief Justice has created the ["California"] Rules of Court, and the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court has similarly seen fit to codify the areas in which it has discretion into clearly written directives. + + '''Judicial Directive 1''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis01-dir.doc Judicial Directives] + '''Judicial Directive 2''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis02-binder.doc Judicial Binder] + '''Judicial Directive 3''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis03-att.doc Attendance Policy] + '''Judicial Directive 4''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis04-mtg-freq.doc Meeting Frequency] + '''Judicial Directive 5''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis05-resignations.doc Resignations] + '''Judicial Directive 6''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis06-email.doc Filing of Briefs] + '''Judicial Directive 7''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis07-bailiff.doc Bailiff] + '''Judicial Directive 8''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis08-hearingformats.doc Hearing Formats] + '''Judicial Directive 9''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis09-ethics.doc Judicial Guideline of Ethics] + '''Judicial Directive 10''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis10-cert.doc Writs of Certiorari] + '''Judicial Directive 11''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis11-orders.doc Previous Orders] + '''Judicial Directive 12''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis12-altattend.doc Alternate Attendance Policy] + '''Judicial Directive 13''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis13-succession.doc Succession of Presiding Officer] + '''Judicial Directive 14''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis14-ICJF.doc Inter-Collegiate Judicial Federation Liaison] + + = Other Documents = + '''["ASUCD Court Notification"]''' - the following is an example of the notification the Parties receive when a Case is accepted. It highlights the process, and the rights and duties of the respective Parties, in case you are interested. (This example is unusual in that it is for two simultaneous cases which involved essentially the same people) + + [[Comments(Discussion)]] + * '' About the open positions.. Just how much experience with ["ASUCD"] does one need to get the job? ["JosephBleckman"]'' + * '' Experience with ["ASUCD"] in particular is not necessary. However, experience within ["ASUCD"] and knowledge of ["ASUCD"] are two different things. Ultimately, the ["ASUCD President"] decides who gets on the Court (and the ["ASUCD Senate"] confirms the appointments). By the way, I speak as someone who sat in on the interviews for the two most recent appointments to the Court. - ["JonathonLeathers"]'' + ------ + ''2006-04-27 20:39:52'' [[nbsp]] It would be wise to include summaries of these court rulings so that we don't just know "well the opinion was released." --["PhilipNeustrom"] + * My summary: The ["ASUCD Senate"] did everything wrong. - ["JonathonLeathers"] + ------ + ''2006-04-27 22:06:21'' [[nbsp]] I like to just drop them there without summaries initially so people have to actually read them. (= It'll require some craftiness to reduce the size to summary level without losing too much of the coherence. --["KrisFricke"] + ''In a year none of these links will still work and no one will know anything about the cases :-)'' + ------ + Your order struck a code that has already been nullified by the creation of the ["ASUCD"] Bylaws. The code I believe you are looking for is 904A: {{{ + 904. Closed Sessions + + A. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may move into a closed session during a regular + meeting of the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] for any reason by a majority vote of the entire ASUCD + Senate. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may not move into a closed session during a regular + meeting for the purposes of discussing a previously approved/hired ["ASUCD"] employee + or appointee, unless it is in accordance with the "Personnel Matters" section below. + }}} + ------ + ''2006-12-25 01:39:48'' [[nbsp]] I am cool. --["ZakirKhan"] + ------ + ''2007-01-12 15:42:00'' [[nbsp]] Does this mean that Joe will most certainly have the chief justice position? --["SteveOstrowski"] + * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a ["ASUCD Senate"] Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"] + ------ + ''2007-01-12 19:33:35'' [[nbsp]] Nope, the position changes every few weeks. --["KevinPowers"] + ------ + ''2007-04-09 08:25:31'' [[nbsp]] The Court's decision on the ["AS PAPERS"] case is probably the stupidest logic I have ever heard. I don't think people reading a publication will check to see if the publication filled out the proper paper work before they are influenced by what they have read. --["Users/JimSchwab"] + ''Where can one get a copy of the decision?'' + The ["Student Government Administrative Office"] has one outside. I'll see if I can get one online soon. + As the loser in the case, I actually understand the court's logic here. Yeah, the interpretation of the bylaws is pretty counterintuitive, but the bylaws ''are'' that counterintuitive. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] code reminds me of editing some wiki pages -- you don't even see minute errors like this until the big glaring ones are cleaned up. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] codes are finally at the point where the huge problems are gone, but that doesn't mean that they make sense. (Plus, the court probably wanted to avoid a ruling that dealt with free speech issues.) --["Users/BrentLaabs"]

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- As the ["ASUCD Constitution"] phrases it: "The judicial authority of the ["ASUCD"] shall be vested in one ["ASUCD"] Court ...and the ["Student Judicial Affairs"]/["Campus Judicial Board"]." The latter only deals with ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. - - The ["ASUCD"] Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the ["ASUCD Senate"] and exiled to the ["ASUCD"] Gulag in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a two-thirds vote of the ["ASUCD Senate"] after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidentally there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members. - - If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however. - - [[TableOfContents]] - - = Membership = - The Court currently consists of: - * Chief Justice ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady] - * Vice Chief Justice ["Joe Harney"] - * Associate Justice ["Michael Aguilera"] - * Associate Justice ["Users/OraSraboy" Ora Sraboyants] - * Associate Justice John Wheat - * Associate Justice Del Bohner - * Associate Justice Tiffany Setters - * Associate Justice Russell Manning - * Associate Justice ["Arie Van Gemeren"] - - - ==Former Chief Justices== - * ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] - - ==Former Associate Justices== - * ["KevinPowers" Kevin Powers] - * ["Joe Harney"] - * ["Michael Aguilera"] - - ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter. - - Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is ["Michael Aguilera"]. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority. - - = Current Business = - - '''Case 43''' - Not sure v. Not sure - Almost exact duplicate of Case 42. - - '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ["ASUCD"] logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ["ASUCD"] (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ["ASUCD"] fees at the time of the hearing because of a financial aid screwup). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case on such short notice. - - Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is sophomore ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari. - - = History = - == The Prehistoric Court == - The pre-history of the Court is shrouded in myths and legends as record keeping in ["ASUCD"] seems to be shockingly bad. In fact, though some recent Opinions have been submitted to ["SGAO"] multiple times as word documents, and they even printed them out and posted them, they still profess not to have them on record anymore. - - Legend has it, that the ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1994 as the Supreme Court, with an Inferior Court as well, which was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001) - - In 2001 the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court disqualified the ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe]/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD"] party for "massive cheating worse than Ukraine in 2004" (they were very prescient back then). ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe], self proclaimed "["Black Caesar" Black Caesar of ASUCD]", then threatened to sue ["ASUCD"], the Court, the ["UCD Administration" Administration], and anyone else remotely involved back into the stone age. Under threat of this impending legal holocaust, the Court reversed its ruling and allowed "the Reverend" ["Tiqula Bledsoe"] to take office. Like the Romans razing Carthage to the ground and salting its former soil, ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe] Maximus wanted to triumphantly squash his nemesis, the judiciary, and had its name changed legally to the ["ASUCD"] Court, and extralegally to Student Court, with Chairpersons and Members (see Identity Crisis, below). Also, and very significantly, all matters relating to ["ASUCD Elections" elections] were removed from the Court's jurisdiction. Having succeeded in this he then treated himself to the spoils of ["ASUCD"], using government funds to pay for limos and parking tickets (not an exaggeration). - - There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the ["Move to D1" D1] Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear. - - In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office. - - Under the ["KrisFricke" Fricke] Administration, the Court considered six cases the following year. - - == The Identity Crisis == - In 2001 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed changing the name of the principal judicial organ of ["ASUCD"] from "["ASUCD"] Supreme Court" to "["ASUCD"] Court." In the copies of the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] and bylaws produced by ["SGAO"], the change was rendered to "Student Court," and in an overzealous rampage of derision, they proceeded to change every instance of "Justice" to "Member," and "Chief Justice" to "Chairperson," among other things. - - There's a poorly formatted [http://www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2003/11/20/FrontPage/Student.Court.Looks.To.The.Future-1315883.shtml?norewrite200604150360&sourcedomain=www.californiaaggie.com Aggie Article] about conflicts between ["Sara Henry" President Henry] and the Court. - - After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erroneous and that this constitutes a continuing erroneous behavior until it is changed in the copies that the ["SGAO"] is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ["ASUCD"] Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from all ["ASUCD"] bylaws, but the term remains in verbal use by more antiquated individuals. - - == Questionable Importance == - During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ["ASUCD"] had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] said he saw no role in ["ASUCD"] for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both. - - ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] was subsequently appointed to the Court. - - = Cases = - Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke's] computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that. - The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ["ASUCD"] case in arguing a future one. - - These documents are not copyrighted (government documents cannot be copyrighted. This applies to ["ASUCD"] documents when ["ASUCD"] is acting as a government, and don't let them tell you otherwise), but of course disseminating an altered & misleading version of one of these would be illegal. Official copies of these may be (officially should be) available at the ["SGAO"] office on the 3rd floor of the ["MU"] - - '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - __Ricky v. ["Paloma Perez" Perez]__ - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" - '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - __Ahmed-Falol et Al v. ["Sara Henry" Henry]__ - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. - '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - __["Users/MikeSiminitus" Michael Siminitus] v. ["Mark Champagne"]__. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which ["Mark Champagne" Mr. Champagne] disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees. - '''Case # 25''' - Spring 2004 - Filed a day after the above, it involved essentially the same Plaintiffs and Defendants. It was discussed at the same special hearing as above and involved in the same opinion. See above. - '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 - '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 - '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - __["Joseph Harney" Harney] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ["ASUCD"] Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the ["ASUCD Senate"] retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. - '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ["ASUCD"] web-pages must be hosted on the ["ASUCD"] server and approved by ["ASUCD"] unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ["ASUCD"] unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. - '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. The ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Alleging that ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that ["ASUCD Senate"] cannot compel the Court to drop a case. - '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. The ["ASUCD"] Senate__ - Alleging that the closed session which the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ["ASUCD Constitution"] or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). - '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __["Rawi Nanakul" Nanakul] v. ["SGAO"]__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modeled after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States US Federal Gov't] after all) would have the executive office (the ["ASUCD President"]) responsible for carrying out legislation, but ["SGAO"] is named as the Defendant, and ["ASUCD"] tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major ["Student Focus" Focus] campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm. - '''Case # 33''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Case [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor33-02cb-cert.doc declined] by the Court. - '''Case # 34''' - Fall 2006 - __["Kai Savaree-Ruess" Savaree-Ruess] v. ["Genna Carnes Carnes] et Al__ - Accepted, hearing held. See Current Business above. - Regarding the definition of "parties" to a closed session. - '''Case # 35''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Darnell Holloway" Holloway]__ - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], consideration pending the completion of Case 34. - Regarding the appointment of ["Steve Ostrowski"] to an ["Academic Senate"] committee. - '''Case # 38''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski] v. Rivera II__, alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more. - '''["ASUCD Court Case 41" Case # 41]''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski], ["Ronald Payne" Payne]__ - - = Judicial Directives = - Because it is important for judicial bodies to follow clear procedures, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States United States Supreme Court] has drafted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as rules for their own proceedings, the California Judicial Council headed by the Chief Justice has created the ["California"] Rules of Court, and the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court has similarly seen fit to codify the areas in which it has discretion into clearly written directives. - - '''Judicial Directive 1''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis01-dir.doc Judicial Directives] - '''Judicial Directive 2''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis02-binder.doc Judicial Binder] - '''Judicial Directive 3''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis03-att.doc Attendance Policy] - '''Judicial Directive 4''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis04-mtg-freq.doc Meeting Frequency] - '''Judicial Directive 5''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis05-resignations.doc Resignations] - '''Judicial Directive 6''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis06-email.doc Filing of Briefs] - '''Judicial Directive 7''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis07-bailiff.doc Bailiff] - '''Judicial Directive 8''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis08-hearingformats.doc Hearing Formats] - '''Judicial Directive 9''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis09-ethics.doc Judicial Guideline of Ethics] - '''Judicial Directive 10''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis10-cert.doc Writs of Certiorari] - '''Judicial Directive 11''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis11-orders.doc Previous Orders] - '''Judicial Directive 12''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis12-altattend.doc Alternate Attendance Policy] - '''Judicial Directive 13''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis13-succession.doc Succession of Presiding Officer] - '''Judicial Directive 14''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis14-ICJF.doc Inter-Collegiate Judicial Federation Liaison] - - = Other Documents = - '''["ASUCD Court Notification"]''' - the following is an example of the notification the Parties receive when a Case is accepted. It highlights the process, and the rights and duties of the respective Parties, in case you are interested. (This example is unusual in that it is for two simultaneous cases which involved essentially the same people) - - [[Comments(Discussion)]] - * '' About the open positions.. Just how much experience with ["ASUCD"] does one need to get the job? ["JosephBleckman"]'' - * '' Experience with ["ASUCD"] in particular is not necessary. However, experience within ["ASUCD"] and knowledge of ["ASUCD"] are two different things. Ultimately, the ["ASUCD President"] decides who gets on the Court (and the ["ASUCD Senate"] confirms the appointments). By the way, I speak as someone who sat in on the interviews for the two most recent appointments to the Court. - ["JonathonLeathers"]'' - ------ - ''2006-04-27 20:39:52'' [[nbsp]] It would be wise to include summaries of these court rulings so that we don't just know "well the opinion was released." --["PhilipNeustrom"] - * My summary: The ["ASUCD Senate"] did everything wrong. - ["JonathonLeathers"] - ------ - ''2006-04-27 22:06:21'' [[nbsp]] I like to just drop them there without summaries initially so people have to actually read them. (= It'll require some craftiness to reduce the size to summary level without losing too much of the coherence. --["KrisFricke"] - ''In a year none of these links will still work and no one will know anything about the cases :-)'' - ------ - Your order struck a code that has already been nullified by the creation of the ["ASUCD"] Bylaws. The code I believe you are looking for is 904A: {{{ - 904. Closed Sessions - - A. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may move into a closed session during a regular - meeting of the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] for any reason by a majority vote of the entire ASUCD - Senate. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may not move into a closed session during a regular - meeting for the purposes of discussing a previously approved/hired ["ASUCD"] employee - or appointee, unless it is in accordance with the "Personnel Matters" section below. - }}} - ------ - ''2006-12-25 01:39:48'' [[nbsp]] I am cool. --["ZakirKhan"] - ------ - ''2007-01-12 15:42:00'' [[nbsp]] Does this mean that Joe will most certainly have the chief justice position? --["SteveOstrowski"] - * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a ["ASUCD Senate"] Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"] - ------ - ''2007-01-12 19:33:35'' [[nbsp]] Nope, the position changes every few weeks. --["KevinPowers"] - ------ - ''2007-04-09 08:25:31'' [[nbsp]] The Court's decision on the ["AS PAPERS"] case is probably the stupidest logic I have ever heard. I don't think people reading a publication will check to see if the publication filled out the proper paper work before they are influenced by what they have read. --["Users/JimSchwab"] - ''Where can one get a copy of the decision?'' - The ["Student Government Administrative Office"] has one outside. I'll see if I can get one online soon. - As the loser in the case, I actually understand the court's logic here. Yeah, the interpretation of the bylaws is pretty counterintuitive, but the bylaws ''are'' that counterintuitive. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] code reminds me of editing some wiki pages -- you don't even see minute errors like this until the big glaring ones are cleaned up. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] codes are finally at the point where the huge problems are gone, but that doesn't mean that they make sense. (Plus, the court probably wanted to avoid a ruling that dealt with free speech issues.) --["Users/BrentLaabs"]	+ deleted

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- deleted	+ As the ["ASUCD Constitution"] phrases it: "The judicial authority of the ["ASUCD"] shall be vested in one ["ASUCD"] Court ...and the ["Student Judicial Affairs"]/["Campus Judicial Board"]." The latter only deals with ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. + + The ["ASUCD"] Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the ["ASUCD Senate"] and exiled to the ["ASUCD"] Gulag in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a two-thirds vote of the ["ASUCD Senate"] after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidentally there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members. + + If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however. + + [[TableOfContents]] + + = Membership = + The Court currently consists of: + * Chief Justice ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady] + * Vice Chief Justice ["Joe Harney"] + * Associate Justice ["Michael Aguilera"] + * Associate Justice ["Users/OraSraboy" Ora Sraboyants] + * Associate Justice John Wheat + * Associate Justice Del Bohner + * Associate Justice Tiffany Setters + * Associate Justice Russell Manning + * Associate Justice ["Arie Van Gemeren"] + + + ==Former Chief Justices== + * ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] + + ==Former Associate Justices== + * ["KevinPowers" Kevin Powers] + * ["Joe Harney"] + * ["Michael Aguilera"] + + ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter. + + Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is ["Michael Aguilera"]. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority. + + = Current Business = + + '''Case 43''' - Not sure v. Not sure - Almost exact duplicate of Case 42. + + '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ["ASUCD"] logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ["ASUCD"] (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ["ASUCD"] fees at the time of the hearing because of a financial aid screwup). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case on such short notice. + + Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is sophomore ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari. + + = History = + == The Prehistoric Court == + The pre-history of the Court is shrouded in myths and legends as record keeping in ["ASUCD"] seems to be shockingly bad. In fact, though some recent Opinions have been submitted to ["SGAO"] multiple times as word documents, and they even printed them out and posted them, they still profess not to have them on record anymore. + + Legend has it, that the ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1994 as the Supreme Court, with an Inferior Court as well, which was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001) + + In 2001 the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court disqualified the ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe]/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD"] party for "massive cheating worse than Ukraine in 2004" (they were very prescient back then). ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe], self proclaimed "["Black Caesar" Black Caesar of ASUCD]", then threatened to sue ["ASUCD"], the Court, the ["UCD Administration" Administration], and anyone else remotely involved back into the stone age. Under threat of this impending legal holocaust, the Court reversed its ruling and allowed "the Reverend" ["Tiqula Bledsoe"] to take office. Like the Romans razing Carthage to the ground and salting its former soil, ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe] Maximus wanted to triumphantly squash his nemesis, the judiciary, and had its name changed legally to the ["ASUCD"] Court, and extralegally to Student Court, with Chairpersons and Members (see Identity Crisis, below). Also, and very significantly, all matters relating to ["ASUCD Elections" elections] were removed from the Court's jurisdiction. Having succeeded in this he then treated himself to the spoils of ["ASUCD"], using government funds to pay for limos and parking tickets (not an exaggeration). + + There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the ["Move to D1" D1] Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear. + + In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office. + + Under the ["KrisFricke" Fricke] Administration, the Court considered six cases the following year. + + == The Identity Crisis == + In 2001 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed changing the name of the principal judicial organ of ["ASUCD"] from "["ASUCD"] Supreme Court" to "["ASUCD"] Court." In the copies of the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] and bylaws produced by ["SGAO"], the change was rendered to "Student Court," and in an overzealous rampage of derision, they proceeded to change every instance of "Justice" to "Member," and "Chief Justice" to "Chairperson," among other things. + + There's a poorly formatted [http://www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2003/11/20/FrontPage/Student.Court.Looks.To.The.Future-1315883.shtml?norewrite200604150360&sourcedomain=www.californiaaggie.com Aggie Article] about conflicts between ["Sara Henry" President Henry] and the Court. + + After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erroneous and that this constitutes a continuing erroneous behavior until it is changed in the copies that the ["SGAO"] is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ["ASUCD"] Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from all ["ASUCD"] bylaws, but the term remains in verbal use by more antiquated individuals. + + == Questionable Importance == + During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ["ASUCD"] had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] said he saw no role in ["ASUCD"] for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both. + + ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] was subsequently appointed to the Court. + + = Cases = + Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke's] computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that. + The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ["ASUCD"] case in arguing a future one. + + These documents are not copyrighted (government documents cannot be copyrighted. This applies to ["ASUCD"] documents when ["ASUCD"] is acting as a government, and don't let them tell you otherwise), but of course disseminating an altered & misleading version of one of these would be illegal. Official copies of these may be (officially should be) available at the ["SGAO"] office on the 3rd floor of the ["MU"] + + '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - __Ricky v. ["Paloma Perez" Perez]__ - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" + '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - __Ahmed-Falol et Al v. ["Sara Henry" Henry]__ - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. + '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - __["Users/MikeSiminitus" Michael Siminitus] v. ["Mark Champagne"]__. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which ["Mark Champagne" Mr. Champagne] disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees. + '''Case # 25''' - Spring 2004 - Filed a day after the above, it involved essentially the same Plaintiffs and Defendants. It was discussed at the same special hearing as above and involved in the same opinion. See above. + '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - __["Joseph Harney" Harney] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ["ASUCD"] Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the ["ASUCD Senate"] retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. + '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ["ASUCD"] web-pages must be hosted on the ["ASUCD"] server and approved by ["ASUCD"] unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ["ASUCD"] unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. + '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. The ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Alleging that ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that ["ASUCD Senate"] cannot compel the Court to drop a case. + '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. The ["ASUCD"] Senate__ - Alleging that the closed session which the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ["ASUCD Constitution"] or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). + '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __["Rawi Nanakul" Nanakul] v. ["SGAO"]__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modeled after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States US Federal Gov't] after all) would have the executive office (the ["ASUCD President"]) responsible for carrying out legislation, but ["SGAO"] is named as the Defendant, and ["ASUCD"] tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major ["Student Focus" Focus] campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm. + '''Case # 33''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Case [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor33-02cb-cert.doc declined] by the Court. + '''Case # 34''' - Fall 2006 - __["Kai Savaree-Ruess" Savaree-Ruess] v. ["Genna Carnes Carnes] et Al__ - Accepted, hearing held. See Current Business above. - Regarding the definition of "parties" to a closed session. + '''Case # 35''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Darnell Holloway" Holloway]__ - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], consideration pending the completion of Case 34. - Regarding the appointment of ["Steve Ostrowski"] to an ["Academic Senate"] committee. + '''Case # 38''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski] v. Rivera II__, alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more. + '''["ASUCD Court Case 41" Case # 41]''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski], ["Ronald Payne" Payne]__ + + = Judicial Directives = + Because it is important for judicial bodies to follow clear procedures, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States United States Supreme Court] has drafted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as rules for their own proceedings, the California Judicial Council headed by the Chief Justice has created the ["California"] Rules of Court, and the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court has similarly seen fit to codify the areas in which it has discretion into clearly written directives. + + '''Judicial Directive 1''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis01-dir.doc Judicial Directives] + '''Judicial Directive 2''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis02-binder.doc Judicial Binder] + '''Judicial Directive 3''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis03-att.doc Attendance Policy] + '''Judicial Directive 4''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis04-mtg-freq.doc Meeting Frequency] + '''Judicial Directive 5''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis05-resignations.doc Resignations] + '''Judicial Directive 6''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis06-email.doc Filing of Briefs] + '''Judicial Directive 7''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis07-bailiff.doc Bailiff] + '''Judicial Directive 8''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis08-hearingformats.doc Hearing Formats] + '''Judicial Directive 9''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis09-ethics.doc Judicial Guideline of Ethics] + '''Judicial Directive 10''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis10-cert.doc Writs of Certiorari] + '''Judicial Directive 11''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis11-orders.doc Previous Orders] + '''Judicial Directive 12''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis12-altattend.doc Alternate Attendance Policy] + '''Judicial Directive 13''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis13-succession.doc Succession of Presiding Officer] + '''Judicial Directive 14''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis14-ICJF.doc Inter-Collegiate Judicial Federation Liaison] + + = Other Documents = + '''["ASUCD Court Notification"]''' - the following is an example of the notification the Parties receive when a Case is accepted. It highlights the process, and the rights and duties of the respective Parties, in case you are interested. (This example is unusual in that it is for two simultaneous cases which involved essentially the same people) + + [[Comments(Discussion)]] + * '' About the open positions.. Just how much experience with ["ASUCD"] does one need to get the job? ["JosephBleckman"]'' + * '' Experience with ["ASUCD"] in particular is not necessary. However, experience within ["ASUCD"] and knowledge of ["ASUCD"] are two different things. Ultimately, the ["ASUCD President"] decides who gets on the Court (and the ["ASUCD Senate"] confirms the appointments). By the way, I speak as someone who sat in on the interviews for the two most recent appointments to the Court. - ["JonathonLeathers"]'' + ------ + ''2006-04-27 20:39:52'' [[nbsp]] It would be wise to include summaries of these court rulings so that we don't just know "well the opinion was released." --["PhilipNeustrom"] + * My summary: The ["ASUCD Senate"] did everything wrong. - ["JonathonLeathers"] + ------ + ''2006-04-27 22:06:21'' [[nbsp]] I like to just drop them there without summaries initially so people have to actually read them. (= It'll require some craftiness to reduce the size to summary level without losing too much of the coherence. --["KrisFricke"] + ''In a year none of these links will still work and no one will know anything about the cases :-)'' + ------ + Your order struck a code that has already been nullified by the creation of the ["ASUCD"] Bylaws. The code I believe you are looking for is 904A: {{{ + 904. Closed Sessions + + A. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may move into a closed session during a regular + meeting of the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] for any reason by a majority vote of the entire ASUCD + Senate. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may not move into a closed session during a regular + meeting for the purposes of discussing a previously approved/hired ["ASUCD"] employee + or appointee, unless it is in accordance with the "Personnel Matters" section below. + }}} + ------ + ''2006-12-25 01:39:48'' [[nbsp]] I am cool. --["ZakirKhan"] + ------ + ''2007-01-12 15:42:00'' [[nbsp]] Does this mean that Joe will most certainly have the chief justice position? --["SteveOstrowski"] + * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a ["ASUCD Senate"] Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"] + ------ + ''2007-01-12 19:33:35'' [[nbsp]] Nope, the position changes every few weeks. --["KevinPowers"] + ------ + ''2007-04-09 08:25:31'' [[nbsp]] The Court's decision on the ["AS PAPERS"] case is probably the stupidest logic I have ever heard. I don't think people reading a publication will check to see if the publication filled out the proper paper work before they are influenced by what they have read. --["Users/JimSchwab"] + ''Where can one get a copy of the decision?'' + The ["Student Government Administrative Office"] has one outside. I'll see if I can get one online soon. + As the loser in the case, I actually understand the court's logic here. Yeah, the interpretation of the bylaws is pretty counterintuitive, but the bylaws ''are'' that counterintuitive. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] code reminds me of editing some wiki pages -- you don't even see minute errors like this until the big glaring ones are cleaned up. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] codes are finally at the point where the huge problems are gone, but that doesn't mean that they make sense. (Plus, the court probably wanted to avoid a ruling that dealt with free speech issues.) --["Users/BrentLaabs"]

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- As the ["ASUCD Constitution"] phrases it: "The judicial authority of the ["ASUCD"] shall be vested in one ["ASUCD"] Court ...and the ["Student Judicial Affairs"]/["Campus Judicial Board"]." The latter only deals with ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. - - The ["ASUCD"] Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the ["ASUCD Senate"] and exiled to the ["ASUCD"] Gulag in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a two-thirds vote of the ["ASUCD Senate"] after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidentally there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members. - - If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however. - - [[TableOfContents]] - - = Membership = - The Court currently consists of: - * Chief Justice ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady] - * Vice Chief Justice ["Joe Harney"] - * Associate Justice ["Michael Aguilera"] - * Associate Justice ["Users/OraSraboy" Ora Sraboyants] - * Associate Justice John Wheat - * Associate Justice Del Bohner - * Associate Justice Tiffany Setters - * Associate Justice Russell Manning - * Associate Justice ["Arie Van Gemeren"] - - - ==Former Chief Justices== - * ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] - - ==Former Associate Justices== - * ["KevinPowers" Kevin Powers] - * ["Joe Harney"] - * ["Michael Aguilera"] - - ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter. - - Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is ["Michael Aguilera"]. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority. - - = Current Business = - - '''Case 43''' - Not sure v. Not sure - Almost exact duplicate of Case 42. - - '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ["ASUCD"] logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ["ASUCD"] (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ["ASUCD"] fees at the time of the hearing because of a financial aid screwup). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case on such short notice. - - Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is sophomore ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari. - - = History = - == The Prehistoric Court == - The pre-history of the Court is shrouded in myths and legends as record keeping in ["ASUCD"] seems to be shockingly bad. In fact, though some recent Opinions have been submitted to ["SGAO"] multiple times as word documents, and they even printed them out and posted them, they still profess not to have them on record anymore. - - Legend has it, that the ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1994 as the Supreme Court, with an Inferior Court as well, which was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001) - - In 2001 the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court disqualified the ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe]/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD"] party for "massive cheating worse than Ukraine in 2004" (they were very prescient back then). ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe], self proclaimed "["Black Caesar" Black Caesar of ASUCD]", then threatened to sue ["ASUCD"], the Court, the ["UCD Administration" Administration], and anyone else remotely involved back into the stone age. Under threat of this impending legal holocaust, the Court reversed its ruling and allowed "the Reverend" ["Tiqula Bledsoe"] to take office. Like the Romans razing Carthage to the ground and salting its former soil, ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe] Maximus wanted to triumphantly squash his nemesis, the judiciary, and had its name changed legally to the ["ASUCD"] Court, and extralegally to Student Court, with Chairpersons and Members (see Identity Crisis, below). Also, and very significantly, all matters relating to ["ASUCD Elections" elections] were removed from the Court's jurisdiction. Having succeeded in this he then treated himself to the spoils of ["ASUCD"], using government funds to pay for limos and parking tickets (not an exaggeration). - - There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the ["Move to D1" D1] Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear. - - In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office. - - Under the ["KrisFricke" Fricke] Administration, the Court considered six cases the following year. - - == The Identity Crisis == - In 2001 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed changing the name of the principal judicial organ of ["ASUCD"] from "["ASUCD"] Supreme Court" to "["ASUCD"] Court." In the copies of the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] and bylaws produced by ["SGAO"], the change was rendered to "Student Court," and in an overzealous rampage of derision, they proceeded to change every instance of "Justice" to "Member," and "Chief Justice" to "Chairperson," among other things. - - There's a poorly formatted [http://www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2003/11/20/FrontPage/Student.Court.Looks.To.The.Future-1315883.shtml?norewrite200604150360&sourcedomain=www.californiaaggie.com Aggie Article] about conflicts between ["Sara Henry" President Henry] and the Court. - - After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erroneous and that this constitutes a continuing erroneous behavior until it is changed in the copies that the ["SGAO"] is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ["ASUCD"] Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from all ["ASUCD"] bylaws, but the term remains in verbal use by more antiquated individuals. - - == Questionable Importance == - During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ["ASUCD"] had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] said he saw no role in ["ASUCD"] for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both. - - ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] was subsequently appointed to the Court. - - = Cases = - Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke's] computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that. - The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ["ASUCD"] case in arguing a future one. - - These documents are not copyrighted (government documents cannot be copyrighted. This applies to ["ASUCD"] documents when ["ASUCD"] is acting as a government, and don't let them tell you otherwise), but of course disseminating an altered & misleading version of one of these would be illegal. Official copies of these may be (officially should be) available at the ["SGAO"] office on the 3rd floor of the ["MU"] - - '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - __Ricky v. ["Paloma Perez" Perez]__ - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" - '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - __Ahmed-Falol et Al v. ["Sara Henry" Henry]__ - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. - '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - __["Users/MikeSiminitus" Michael Siminitus] v. ["Mark Champagne"]__. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which ["Mark Champagne" Mr. Champagne] disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees. - '''Case # 25''' - Spring 2004 - Filed a day after the above, it involved essentially the same Plaintiffs and Defendants. It was discussed at the same special hearing as above and involved in the same opinion. See above. - '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 - '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 - '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - __["Joseph Harney" Harney] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ["ASUCD"] Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the ["ASUCD Senate"] retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. - '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ["ASUCD"] web-pages must be hosted on the ["ASUCD"] server and approved by ["ASUCD"] unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ["ASUCD"] unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. - '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. The ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Alleging that ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that ["ASUCD Senate"] cannot compel the Court to drop a case. - '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. The ["ASUCD"] Senate__ - Alleging that the closed session which the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ["ASUCD Constitution"] or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). - '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __["Rawi Nanakul" Nanakul] v. ["SGAO"]__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modeled after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States US Federal Gov't] after all) would have the executive office (the ["ASUCD President"]) responsible for carrying out legislation, but ["SGAO"] is named as the Defendant, and ["ASUCD"] tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major ["Student Focus" Focus] campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm. - '''Case # 33''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Case [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor33-02cb-cert.doc declined] by the Court. - '''Case # 34''' - Fall 2006 - __["Kai Savaree-Ruess" Savaree-Ruess] v. ["Genna Carnes Carnes] et Al__ - Accepted, hearing held. See Current Business above. - Regarding the definition of "parties" to a closed session. - '''Case # 35''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Darnell Holloway" Holloway]__ - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], consideration pending the completion of Case 34. - Regarding the appointment of ["Steve Ostrowski"] to an ["Academic Senate"] committee. - '''Case # 38''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski] v. Rivera II__, alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more. - '''["ASUCD Court Case 41" Case # 41]''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski], ["Ronald Payne" Payne]__ - - = Judicial Directives = - Because it is important for judicial bodies to follow clear procedures, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States United States Supreme Court] has drafted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as rules for their own proceedings, the California Judicial Council headed by the Chief Justice has created the ["California"] Rules of Court, and the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court has similarly seen fit to codify the areas in which it has discretion into clearly written directives. - - '''Judicial Directive 1''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis01-dir.doc Judicial Directives] - '''Judicial Directive 2''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis02-binder.doc Judicial Binder] - '''Judicial Directive 3''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis03-att.doc Attendance Policy] - '''Judicial Directive 4''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis04-mtg-freq.doc Meeting Frequency] - '''Judicial Directive 5''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis05-resignations.doc Resignations] - '''Judicial Directive 6''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis06-email.doc Filing of Briefs] - '''Judicial Directive 7''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis07-bailiff.doc Bailiff] - '''Judicial Directive 8''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis08-hearingformats.doc Hearing Formats] - '''Judicial Directive 9''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis09-ethics.doc Judicial Guideline of Ethics] - '''Judicial Directive 10''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis10-cert.doc Writs of Certiorari] - '''Judicial Directive 11''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis11-orders.doc Previous Orders] - '''Judicial Directive 12''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis12-altattend.doc Alternate Attendance Policy] - '''Judicial Directive 13''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis13-succession.doc Succession of Presiding Officer] - '''Judicial Directive 14''' - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/codexjudicialis14-ICJF.doc Inter-Collegiate Judicial Federation Liaison] - - = Other Documents = - '''["ASUCD Court Notification"]''' - the following is an example of the notification the Parties receive when a Case is accepted. It highlights the process, and the rights and duties of the respective Parties, in case you are interested. (This example is unusual in that it is for two simultaneous cases which involved essentially the same people) - - [[Comments(Discussion)]] - * '' About the open positions.. Just how much experience with ["ASUCD"] does one need to get the job? ["JosephBleckman"]'' - * '' Experience with ["ASUCD"] in particular is not necessary. However, experience within ["ASUCD"] and knowledge of ["ASUCD"] are two different things. Ultimately, the ["ASUCD President"] decides who gets on the Court (and the ["ASUCD Senate"] confirms the appointments). By the way, I speak as someone who sat in on the interviews for the two most recent appointments to the Court. - ["JonathonLeathers"]'' - ------ - ''2006-04-27 20:39:52'' [[nbsp]] It would be wise to include summaries of these court rulings so that we don't just know "well the opinion was released." --["PhilipNeustrom"] - * My summary: The ["ASUCD Senate"] did everything wrong. - ["JonathonLeathers"] - ------ - ''2006-04-27 22:06:21'' [[nbsp]] I like to just drop them there without summaries initially so people have to actually read them. (= It'll require some craftiness to reduce the size to summary level without losing too much of the coherence. --["KrisFricke"] - ''In a year none of these links will still work and no one will know anything about the cases :-)'' - ------ - Your order struck a code that has already been nullified by the creation of the ["ASUCD"] Bylaws. The code I believe you are looking for is 904A: {{{ - 904. Closed Sessions - - A. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may move into a closed session during a regular - meeting of the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] for any reason by a majority vote of the entire ASUCD - Senate. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may not move into a closed session during a regular - meeting for the purposes of discussing a previously approved/hired ["ASUCD"] employee - or appointee, unless it is in accordance with the "Personnel Matters" section below. - }}} - ------ - ''2006-12-25 01:39:48'' [[nbsp]] I am cool. --["ZakirKhan"] - ------ - ''2007-01-12 15:42:00'' [[nbsp]] Does this mean that Joe will most certainly have the chief justice position? --["SteveOstrowski"] - * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a ["ASUCD Senate"] Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"] - ------ - ''2007-01-12 19:33:35'' [[nbsp]] Nope, the position changes every few weeks. --["KevinPowers"] - ------ - ''2007-04-09 08:25:31'' [[nbsp]] The Court's decision on the ["AS PAPERS"] case is probably the stupidest logic I have ever heard. I don't think people reading a publication will check to see if the publication filled out the proper paper work before they are influenced by what they have read. --["Users/JimSchwab"] - ''Where can one get a copy of the decision?'' - The ["Student Government Administrative Office"] has one outside. I'll see if I can get one online soon. - As the loser in the case, I actually understand the court's logic here. Yeah, the interpretation of the bylaws is pretty counterintuitive, but the bylaws ''are'' that counterintuitive. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] code reminds me of editing some wiki pages -- you don't even see minute errors like this until the big glaring ones are cleaned up. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] codes are finally at the point where the huge problems are gone, but that doesn't mean that they make sense. (Plus, the court probably wanted to avoid a ruling that dealt with free speech issues.) --["Users/BrentLaabs"]	+ deleted

ASUCD Court

PaulAmnuaypayoat — 2007-11-20 21:57:14

links, some minor cleanup

Differences for ASUCD Court

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- As the ASUCD Constitution phrases it: "The judicial authority of the ["ASUCD"] shall be vested in one ASUCD Court ...and the ["Student Judicial Affairs"]/["Campus Judicial Board"]." The latter only deals with elections issues.	+ As the ["ASUCD Constitution"] phrases it: "The judicial authority of the ["ASUCD"] shall be vested in one ["ASUCD"] Court ...and the ["Student Judicial Affairs"]/["Campus Judicial Board"]." The latter only deals with ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues.
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- The ASUCD Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the Senate and exiled to the ["ASUCD Gulag"] in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidentally there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members.	+ The ["ASUCD"] Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the ["ASUCD Senate"] and exiled to the ["ASUCD"] Gulag in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a two-thirds vote of the ["ASUCD Senate"] after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidentally there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members.
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- If one feels that an ASUCD officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ASUCD legislation is not consistent with existent ASUCD bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). SGAO should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ASUCD Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however.	+ If one feels that an ["ASUCD"] officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ["ASUCD"] legislation is not consistent with existent ["ASUCD"] bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). ["SGAO"] should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 8:30pm on Wednesdays in the ["ASUCD"] Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"]. The meeting time is subject to change every quarter however.
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- * Chief Justice ["Tim Coady"]	+ * Chief Justice ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]
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- * Associate Justice Ora Sraboyants	+ * Associate Justice ["Users/OraSraboy" Ora Sraboyants]
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- Kris Fricke was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by Tim Coady. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). Fricke has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter.	+ ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the Chief Justice for over three years, having been recently replaced following his retirement by ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter.
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- Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is Michael Aguilera. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority.	+ Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simultaneously appointed. The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absence of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is ["Michael Aguilera"]. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority.
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- '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ASUCD logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ASUCD (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ASUCD fees at the time of the hearing because of a financial aid screwup). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case on such short notice.	+ '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ["ASUCD"] logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ["ASUCD"] (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ["ASUCD"] fees at the time of the hearing because of a financial aid screwup). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case on such short notice.
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- - - Chief Justice Fricke has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the Senate meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is sophomore Tim Coady. Fricke reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari. -	+ Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] has now retired from the court, as he became the first justice to hit the term limit of four years. His farewell speech at the ["ASUCD Senate"] meeting of 16 November, discussed how much he loved the association and the court, and how retarded it was that the Government Codes and Standing Rules were combined in the Bylaws. His replacement, chosen from among the current justices, is sophomore ["Users/TimCoady" Tim Coady]. ["KrisFricke" Fricke] reached the end of his term at approximately 6PM January 25, 2007 -- shortly after he finished writing his last writ of certiorari.
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- The pre-history of the Court is shrouded in myths and legends as record keeping in ASUCD seems to be shockingly bad. In fact, though some recent Opinions have been submitted to ["SGAO"] multiple times as word documents, and they even printed them out and posted them, they still profess not to have them on record anymore.	+ The pre-history of the Court is shrouded in myths and legends as record keeping in ["ASUCD"] seems to be shockingly bad. In fact, though some recent Opinions have been submitted to ["SGAO"] multiple times as word documents, and they even printed them out and posted them, they still profess not to have them on record anymore.
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- Legend has it, that the ASUCD Court was created in its recognizable form in 1994 as the Supreme Court, with an Inferior Court as well, which was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding elections issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)	+ Legend has it, that the ["ASUCD"] Court was created in its recognizable form in 1994 as the Supreme Court, with an Inferior Court as well, which was never used. In the first seven years there were allegedly eight cases, five of which were in 1995 regarding ["ASUCD Elections" elections] issues. (source: Background on Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2001)
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- In 2001 the ASUCD Supreme Court disqualified the Bledsoe/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD" Lead] party for "massive cheating worse than Ukraine in 2004" (they were very prescient back then). Bledsoe, self proclaimed "["Black Caesar" Black Caesar of ASUCD]", then threatened to sue ASUCD, the Court, the Administration, and anyone else remotely involved back into the stone age. Under threat of this impending legal holocaust, the Court reversed its ruling and allowed "the Reverend" Tiqula Bledsoe to take office. Like the Romans razing Carthage to the ground and salting its former soil, Bledsoe Maximus wanted to triumphantly squash his nemesis the judiciary, and had its name changed legally to the ASUCD Court, and extralegally to Student Court, with Chairpersons and Members (see Identity Crisis, below). Also, and very significantly, all matters relating to Elections were removed from the Court's jurisdiction. Having succeeded in this he then treated himself to the spoils of ASUCD, using government funds to pay for limos and parking tickets (not an exaggeration).	+ In 2001 the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court disqualified the ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe]/Beaman executive ticket of the ["LEAD"] party for "massive cheating worse than Ukraine in 2004" (they were very prescient back then). ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe], self proclaimed "["Black Caesar" Black Caesar of ASUCD]", then threatened to sue ["ASUCD"], the Court, the ["UCD Administration" Administration], and anyone else remotely involved back into the stone age. Under threat of this impending legal holocaust, the Court reversed its ruling and allowed "the Reverend" ["Tiqula Bledsoe"] to take office. Like the Romans razing Carthage to the ground and salting its former soil, ["Tiqula Bledsoe" Bledsoe] Maximus wanted to triumphantly squash his nemesis, the judiciary, and had its name changed legally to the ["ASUCD"] Court, and extralegally to Student Court, with Chairpersons and Members (see Identity Crisis, below). Also, and very significantly, all matters relating to ["ASUCD Elections" elections] were removed from the Court's jurisdiction. Having succeeded in this he then treated himself to the spoils of ["ASUCD"], using government funds to pay for limos and parking tickets (not an exaggeration).
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- There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the D1 Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear.	+ There followed a year during which the Court was so crushed that it did not even meet. Cases were filed (by ["Lamar Heystek"], and ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] among others), but the plaintiffs in many cases never heard back from the Court once the complaint was filed. When the Court resumed activity with the ["Move to D1" D1] Case, it was designated Case # 19; obviously this doesn't add up to the eight cases previously mentioned, unless ten were filed during the year of inactivity. The truth to this matter is unclear.
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- In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the move to D1. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over elections and should have handed the case back to the elections committee once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ASUCD Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the Constitution which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the UC Davis legal council, who informed them that Justice Kris Fricke was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice Fricke was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office.	+ In the winter of 2002, the Court had a major case regarding the ["move to D1"]. It hinged upon a misprint in the Codes that led to confusion as to whether or not the referendum to place the ["Move to D1"] question on the ballot. The majority of the Court found that the referendum had indeed been placed incorrectly on the ballot and declared it therefore null and void. Newly appointed Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was the sole dissenter, claiming that yes there was clearly a mistake in the process through which the referendum ended up on the ballot, but the Court did not have jurisdiction over ["ASUCD Elections" elections] and should have handed the case back to the ["Elections Committee"] once it had examined and interpreted the contested codes. In response to this declaration, the ["ASUCD"] Executive Office stated "we believe [the Court] is only advisory" (obviously they had skipped over the part in the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] which mentions ''binding opinions''). The Court subsequently met with the ["UC Davis"] legal council, who informed them that Justice ["KrisFricke" Kris Fricke] was in fact correct and they were fairly far from the recognized path of legal norms. Within a month the previous Chief Justice resigned, and Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke] was confirmed as the new Chief Justice just in time to swear in a new executive office.
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- Under the Fricke Administration, the Court considered six cases the following year.	+ Under the ["KrisFricke" Fricke] Administration, the Court considered six cases the following year.
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- In 2001 a Constitutional Amendment was passed changing the name of the principal judicial organ of ASUCD from "ASUCD Supreme Court" to "ASUCD Court." In the copies of the Constitution and bylaws produced by SGAO, the change was rendered to "Student Court," and in an overzealous rampage of derision, they proceeded to change every instance of "Justice" to "Member," and "Chief Justice" to "Chairperson," among other things.	+ In 2001 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed changing the name of the principal judicial organ of ["ASUCD"] from "["ASUCD"] Supreme Court" to "["ASUCD"] Court." In the copies of the ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitution] and bylaws produced by ["SGAO"], the change was rendered to "Student Court," and in an overzealous rampage of derision, they proceeded to change every instance of "Justice" to "Member," and "Chief Justice" to "Chairperson," among other things.
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- After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erroneous and that this constitutes a continuing erroneous behavior until it is changed in the copies that the SGAO is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a Constitutional Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ASUCD Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a constitutional amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from all ASUCD bylaws, but the term remains in verbal use by more antiquated individuals.	+ After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erroneous and that this constitutes a continuing erroneous behavior until it is changed in the copies that the ["SGAO"] is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ["ASUCD"] Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a ["ASUCD Constitution" Constitutional] amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from all ["ASUCD"] bylaws, but the term remains in verbal use by more antiquated individuals.
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- During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ASUCD had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ASUCD Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate Kongo Aguilera said he saw no role in ASUCD for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both.	+ During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ["ASUCD"] had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate ["Michael Aguilera" Kongo Aguilera] said he saw no role in ["ASUCD"] for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both.
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- Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice Fricke's computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that. - The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ASUCD case in arguing a future one.	+ Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to misplace them and Chief Justice ["KrisFricke" Fricke's] computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that. + The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ["ASUCD"] case in arguing a future one.
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- These documents are not copyrighted (government documents cannot be copyrighted. This applies to ASUCD documents when ASUCD is acting as a government, and don't let them tell you otherwise), but of course disseminating an altered & misleading version of one of these would be illegal. Official copies of these may be (officially should be) available at the ["SGAO"] office on the 3rd floor of the ["MU"]	+ These documents are not copyrighted (government documents cannot be copyrighted. This applies to ["ASUCD"] documents when ["ASUCD"] is acting as a government, and don't let them tell you otherwise), but of course disseminating an altered & misleading version of one of these would be illegal. Official copies of these may be (officially should be) available at the ["SGAO"] office on the 3rd floor of the ["MU"]
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- '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - __Ricky v. Perez__ - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" - '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - __Ahmed-Falol et Al v. Henry__ - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. - '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - __Michael Siminitus v. ["Mark Champagne"]__. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which Mr Champagne disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees.	+ '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - __Ricky v. ["Paloma Perez" Perez]__ - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" + '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - __Ahmed-Falol et Al v. ["Sara Henry" Henry]__ - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. + '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - __["Users/MikeSiminitus" Michael Siminitus] v. ["Mark Champagne"]__. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which ["Mark Champagne" Mr. Champagne] disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees.
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- '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - __Van Schoelandt v. Leathers__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 - '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - __Van Schoelandt v. Leathers__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 - '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - __Harney v. Leathers__. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ASUCD Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the Senate retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. - '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __Laabs v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ASUCD web-pages must be hosted on the ASUCD server and approved by ASUCD unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ASUCD unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. - '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - __Laabs v. The ASUCD Senate__ - Alleging that Senate Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that Senate cannot compel the Court to drop a case. - '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - __Van Schoelandt v. The ASUCD Senate__ - Alleging that the closed session which the ASUCD Senate had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote Senate Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ASUCD Constitution or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). - '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __Nanakul v. SGAO__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of Senate Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modeled after the US Federal Gov't after all) would have the executive office (the ASUCD President) responsible for carrying out legislation, but SGAO is named as the Defendant, and ASUCD tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major Focus campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm. - '''Case # 33''' - Fall 2006 - __Laabs v. ASUCD Senate__ - Case [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor33-02cb-cert.doc declined] by the Court. - '''Case # 34''' - Fall 2006 - __Savaree-Ruess v. Carnes et Al__ - Accepted, hearing held. See Current Business above. - Regarding the definition of "parties" to a closed session. - '''Case # 35''' - Fall 2006 - __Laabs v. Holloway__ - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], consideration pending the completion of Case 34. - Regarding the appointment of ["Steve Ostrowski"] to an Academic Senate committee. - '''["ASUCD Court Case 41"]''' - '''Case 38''' - ''Ostrowski v. Rivera II'', alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more.	+ '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - __["Joseph Harney" Harney] v. ["Jonathon Leathers" Leathers]__. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ["ASUCD"] Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the ["ASUCD Senate"] retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. + '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ["ASUCD"] web-pages must be hosted on the ["ASUCD"] server and approved by ["ASUCD"] unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ["ASUCD"] unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. + '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. The ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Alleging that ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that ["ASUCD Senate"] cannot compel the Court to drop a case. + '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - __["Chad Van Schoelandt" Van Schoelandt] v. The ["ASUCD"] Senate__ - Alleging that the closed session which the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ["ASUCD Constitution"] or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). + '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __["Rawi Nanakul" Nanakul] v. ["SGAO"]__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of ["ASUCD Senate"] Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modeled after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States US Federal Gov't] after all) would have the executive office (the ["ASUCD President"]) responsible for carrying out legislation, but ["SGAO"] is named as the Defendant, and ["ASUCD"] tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major ["Student Focus" Focus] campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm. + '''Case # 33''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["ASUCD Senate"]__ - Case [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor33-02cb-cert.doc declined] by the Court. + '''Case # 34''' - Fall 2006 - __["Kai Savaree-Ruess" Savaree-Ruess] v. ["Genna Carnes Carnes] et Al__ - Accepted, hearing held. See Current Business above. - Regarding the definition of "parties" to a closed session. + '''Case # 35''' - Fall 2006 - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Darnell Holloway" Holloway]__ - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], consideration pending the completion of Case 34. - Regarding the appointment of ["Steve Ostrowski"] to an ["Academic Senate"] committee. + '''Case # 38''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski] v. Rivera II__, alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more. + '''["ASUCD Court Case 41" Case # 41]''' - ''Unknown Date'' - __["Users/BrentLaabs" Laabs] v. ["Steve Ostrowski" Ostrowski], ["Ronald Payne" Payne]__
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- Because it is important for judicial bodies to follow clear procedures, the United States Supreme Court has drafted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as rules for their own proceedings, the California Judicial Council headed by the Chief Justice has created the California Rules of Court, and the ASUCD Supreme Court has similarly seen fit to codify the areas in which it has discretion into clearly written directives.	+ Because it is important for judicial bodies to follow clear procedures, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States United States Supreme Court] has drafted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as rules for their own proceedings, the California Judicial Council headed by the Chief Justice has created the ["California"] Rules of Court, and the ["ASUCD"] Supreme Court has similarly seen fit to codify the areas in which it has discretion into clearly written directives.
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- * '' About the open positions.. Just how much experience with ASUCD does one need to get the job? ["JosephBleckman"]'' - * '' Experience with ASUCD in particular is not necessary. However, experience within ASUCD and knowledge of ASUCD are two different things. Ultimately, the ASUCD President decides who gets on the Court (and the Senate confirms the appointments). By the way, I speak as someone who sat in on the interviews for the two most recent appointments to the Court. - ["JonathonLeathers"]''	+ * '' About the open positions.. Just how much experience with ["ASUCD"] does one need to get the job? ["JosephBleckman"]'' + * '' Experience with ["ASUCD"] in particular is not necessary. However, experience within ["ASUCD"] and knowledge of ["ASUCD"] are two different things. Ultimately, the ["ASUCD President"] decides who gets on the Court (and the ["ASUCD Senate"] confirms the appointments). By the way, I speak as someone who sat in on the interviews for the two most recent appointments to the Court. - ["JonathonLeathers"]''
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- * My summary: The Senate did everything wrong. - ["JonathonLeathers"]	+ * My summary: The ["ASUCD Senate"] did everything wrong. - ["JonathonLeathers"]
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- Your order struck a code that has already been nullified by the creation of the ASUCD Bylaws. The code I believe you are looking for is 904A: {{{	+ Your order struck a code that has already been nullified by the creation of the ["ASUCD"] Bylaws. The code I believe you are looking for is 904A: {{{
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- A. The ASUCD Senate may move into a closed session during a regular - meeting of the ASUCD Senate for any reason by a majority vote of the entire ASUCD - Senate. The ASUCD Senate may not move into a closed session during a regular - meeting for the purposes of discussing a previously approved/hired ASUCD employee	+ A. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may move into a closed session during a regular + meeting of the ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] for any reason by a majority vote of the entire ASUCD + Senate. The ["ASUCD"] ["ASUCD Senate"] may not move into a closed session during a regular + meeting for the purposes of discussing a previously approved/hired ["ASUCD"] employee
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- * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a Senate Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"]	+ * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a ["ASUCD Senate"] Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"]
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- ''2007-04-09 08:25:31'' [[nbsp]] The Court's decision on the AS PAPERS case is probably the stupidest logic I have ever heard. I don't think people reading a publication will check to see if the publication filled out the proper paper work before they are influenced by what they have read. --["Users/JimSchwab"]	+ ''2007-04-09 08:25:31'' [[nbsp]] The Court's decision on the ["AS PAPERS"] case is probably the stupidest logic I have ever heard. I don't think people reading a publication will check to see if the publication filled out the proper paper work before they are influenced by what they have read. --["Users/JimSchwab"]
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- As the loser in the case, I actually understand the court's logic here. Yeah, the interpretation of the bylaws is pretty counterintuitive, but the bylaws ''are'' that counterintuitive. The elections code reminds me of editing some wiki pages -- you don't even see minute errors like this until the big glaring ones are cleaned up. The elections codes are finally at the point where the huge problems are gone, but that doesn't mean that they make sense. (Plus, the court probably wanted to avoid a ruling that dealt with free speech issues.) --["Users/BrentLaabs"]	+ As the loser in the case, I actually understand the court's logic here. Yeah, the interpretation of the bylaws is pretty counterintuitive, but the bylaws ''are'' that counterintuitive. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] code reminds me of editing some wiki pages -- you don't even see minute errors like this until the big glaring ones are cleaned up. The ["ASUCD Elections" elections] codes are finally at the point where the huge problems are gone, but that doesn't mean that they make sense. (Plus, the court probably wanted to avoid a ruling that dealt with free speech issues.) --["Users/BrentLaabs"]

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- '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ASUCD logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ASUCD (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ASUCD fees at the time of the hearing). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case the night of the hearing.	+ '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007. The case was to deal with the legality how ["GO"] used the university and ASUCD logos on [http://goucdavis.com/go/index.html their website]. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff the night of the hearing, presumably because he wasn't prepared to prove that he was a member of ASUCD (Laabs is a grad student who hadn't paid his ASUCD fees at the time of the hearing because of a financial aid screwup). Laabs was censured for one month by the Court for withdrawing the case on such short notice.

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	+ '''Case 38''' - ''Ostrowski v. Rivera II'', alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more.

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- '''Case 34''' - Case has been [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-02c-cert.doc accepted], and a Hearing took place on Wednesday, Dec 6th, 7:10pm, [http://emosnail.livejournal.com/260750.html UCD Law School Moot Court] Rm. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-03-brfptf.doc Plaintiff Brief], and [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-04-brfdef.doc Defense Brief] are both on file.
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- '''Case 35''' - ''Laabs v. Holloway'' was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc accepted] on 12/06/06. No hearing has been scheduled yet, but it is scheduled to be considered once Case 34 has been concluded. - - '''Case 38''' - ''Ostrowski v. Rivera II'', alleging that Rivera failed to hire enough alternate commissioners, was rejected due to the statue of limitations. See the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/government/gov-documents/judicial/cases/supcor38-02-certiorari.doc writ of certiorari] for more.

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- - '''Case 41'''- Laabs Vs Davis Enforcer: The Davis Enforcer was found innocent of making illegal endorsements for ASUCD candidates in the Winter 2007 ASUCD Election.

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- '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ will be heard at 8:10 PM on Wednesday, with regards to the constitutionality of the ["GO"] website. The case was dismissed due to Brent Laab's standing with ASUCD. Laabs was then censored for one month by the Court.	+ '''Case 42''' - __Laabs v. Friedman et al.__ was heard at 8:10 PM on October 31st 2007, with regards to the constitutionality of the ["GO"] website. The case was dismissed due to Brent Laab's standing with ASUCD. Laabs was then censored for one month by the Court.

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BrentLaabs — 2007-10-30 14:41:32

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DavidGrundler — 2007-04-09 23:16:17

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- The ASUCD Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the Senate and exiled to the ["ASUCD Gulag"] in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a 2/3rds vote of the Senate after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidently there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members.	+ The ASUCD Court consists of nine members, nominated by the ["ASUCD President"] and confirmed by the ["ASUCD Senate" Senate]. The Chief Justice is chosen from among these by the same process. Justices serve until they graduate, resign, or, more likely, are removed by the Senate and exiled to the ["ASUCD Gulag"] in Siberia. Justices may be permanently removed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate after a personnel hearing on the matter - incidentally there is no similar mechanism for impeachment of senators. In fall of 2003, there were three removal attempts against Court members.
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- '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __Laabs v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ASUCD webpages must be hosted on the ASUCD server and approved by ASUCD unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ASUCD unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires.	+ '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __Laabs v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ASUCD web-pages must be hosted on the ASUCD server and approved by ASUCD unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ASUCD unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires.
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- '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __Nanakul v. SGAO__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of Senate Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modelled after the US Federal Gov't after all) would have the executive office (the ASUCD President) responsible for carrying out legislation, but SGAO is named as the Defendant, and ASUCD tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major Focus campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm.	+ '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __Nanakul v. SGAO__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of Senate Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modeled after the US Federal Gov't after all) would have the executive office (the ASUCD President) responsible for carrying out legislation, but SGAO is named as the Defendant, and ASUCD tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major Focus campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm.
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JasonAller — 2007-04-09 19:59:28

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BrentLaabs — 2007-04-09 18:35:23

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DavidGrundler — 2007-04-09 12:29:35

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SteveOstrowski — 2007-04-09 12:23:37

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BrentLaabs — 2007-04-09 11:05:33

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JabberWokky — 2007-04-09 11:03:27

rm redundant title. "ASUCD Court", followed by "The ASUCD Court"??!?!?

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BrentLaabs — 2007-04-09 11:00:21

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	+ The ["Student Government Administrative Office"] has one outside. I'll see if I can get one online soon. + As the loser in the case, I actually understand the court's logic here. Yeah, the interpretation of the bylaws is pretty counterintuitive, but the bylaws ''are'' that counterintuitive. The elections code reminds me of editing some wiki pages -- you don't even see minute errors like this until the big glaring ones are cleaned up. The elections codes are finally at the point where the huge problems are gone, but that doesn't mean that they make sense. (Plus, the court probably wanted to avoid a ruling that dealt with free speech issues.) --["Users/BrentLaabs"]

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WilliamLewis — 2007-04-09 09:50:20

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WilliamLewis — 2007-04-09 09:49:52

in re enforcer case

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JimSchwab — 2007-04-09 08:25:31

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	+ ------ + ''2007-04-09 08:25:31'' [[nbsp]] The Court's decision on the AS PAPERS case is probably the stupidest logic I have ever heard. I don't think people reading a publication will check to see if the publication filled out the proper paper work before they are influenced by what they have read. --["Users/JimSchwab"]

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SteveOstrowski — 2007-03-12 18:17:17

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KevinPowers — 2007-01-30 12:25:48

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BrentLaabs — 2007-01-26 12:50:27

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KevinPowers — 2007-01-26 00:08:38

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KevinPowers — 2007-01-26 00:04:57

When appointed at the same time, placed in order of spelling

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PaulHarms — 2007-01-26 00:00:55

3 new hires, 1.5 names

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BrentLaabs — 2007-01-25 19:47:43

Fricke reaches the end of his term; Case 38 Certiorari out

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BrentLaabs — 2007-01-18 15:19:36

fricke's still on the court

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JamesSchwab — 2007-01-18 14:46:25

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MaxMikalonis — 2007-01-13 23:50:29

Resp.

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	+ * Remember my Court CA? Basically, the a comittee of the same composition that chooses justices now chooses the Chief Justice, w/a Senate Confirmation. So the Vice-Chair (Which has been on a rotating basis for the whole last academic quarter at the least) is by no means guaranteed the Chief Justice position. --["MaxMikalonis"]

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KevinPowers — 2007-01-12 19:33:47

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KevinPowers — 2007-01-12 19:33:35

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	+ ------ + ''2007-01-12 19:33:35'' [[nbsp]] Nope, the position chnges every few weeks. --["KevinPowers"]

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SteveOstrowski — 2007-01-12 15:42:00

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	+ ------ + ''2007-01-12 15:42:00'' [[nbsp]] Does this mean that Joe will most certainly have the chief justice position? --["SteveOstrowski"]

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KrisFricke — 2007-01-12 12:53:54

Joe Harney now Vice Chief Justice

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- Kris Fricke has been the Chief Justice for over three years now. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). Fricke has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter. It will be his 11th quarter on the Court.	+ Kris Fricke has been the Chief Justice for over three years now. He led a coup d'etat shortly after being put on the court and was installed as Chief Justice while still the newest Court member, having sat on the Court for about a month, dissented on every opinion, and been the plaintiff in the first three cases to be considered (which had been filed during the previous year but the Court wasn't operational for the preceding entire year). Fricke has announced he will be retiring at the end of this (Fall 2006) quarter. He is technically still the Chief Justice until replaced, and so his ghost is presiding over the Court in this the 12th quarter since he was placed on the Court.

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ZakirKhan — 2006-12-25 01:39:48

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	+ ------ + ''2006-12-25 01:39:48'' [[nbsp]] I am cool. --["ZakirKhan"]

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SteveOstrowski — 2006-12-07 12:46:01

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KrisFricke — 2006-12-07 12:28:57

dunno why Ostrowski link isn't working

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KrisFricke — 2006-12-07 12:26:33

Case 35 Accepted, brought list of Cases up to date

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- '''Case 34''' - Case has been [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-02c-cert.doc accepted], and a Hearing is provisionally scheduled for next Wednesday, Dec 6th, 7:10pm, [http://emosnail.livejournal.com/260750.html UCD Law School Moot Court] Rm. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-03-brfptf.doc Plaintiff Brief], and [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-04-brfdef.doc Defence Brief] are both on file. Brent Laabs has promised to provide snacks to those in attendence.	+ '''Case 34''' - Case has been [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-02c-cert.doc accepted], and a Hearing took place on Wednesday, Dec 6th, 7:10pm, [http://emosnail.livejournal.com/260750.html UCD Law School Moot Court] Rm. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-03-brfptf.doc Plaintiff Brief], and [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor34-04-brfdef.doc Defence Brief] are both on file. + + '''Case 35''' - ''Laabs vs Holloway'' was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc accepted] on 12/06/06. No hearing has been scheduled yet, but it is scheduled to be considered once Case 34 has been concluded.
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- After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erronious and that this constitutes a continuing erronious behaviour until it is changed in the copies that the SGAO is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a Constitutional Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ASUCD Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a constitutional amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from the ASUCD Bylaws, but they remain in verbal use by more antiquated individuals.	+ After thorough discussion of the subject, the Court has determined that the references to "Student Court" etc, having never been legally rendered, are erronious and that this constitutes a continuing erronious behaviour until it is changed in the copies that the SGAO is producing. In the Winter of 2005 a Constitutional Amendment was passed which intentionally referred to the Court as the ASUCD Court. Thus that name has both been determined to be the accurate one through analysis of historical legislation, but has been reaffirmed by a constitutional amendment (which takes precedence over any previous conflicting references or references in subordinate bodies). As of this writing, references to "Student Court" have been removed from all ASUCD bylaws, but the term remains in verbal use by more antiquated individuals.
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- During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ASUCD had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ASUCD Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate Kongo Aguilera said he saw no role in ASUCD for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both. At this writing, the case is yet to be resolved.	+ During the 2004/2005 year no cases were filed. Some senators took this to mean that ASUCD had become a utopian society and no longer needed the ASUCD Supreme Court. During the Candidates Forum in Fall 2005 candidate Kongo Aguilera said he saw no role in ASUCD for the Court. Shortly following that election four cases were filed. The candidates will not be seated until the case regarding the election is resolved. Without the role of the Court in the association, it is hard to imagine a resolution to this situation which would not involve the ["shadiness factor" dubious] overriding of bylaws, a cry of injustice and public opinion fiasco, or both.
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- '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" - '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. - '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - Michael Siminitus v ["Mark Champagne"]. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which Mr Champagne disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees.	+ '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - __Ricky v Perez__ - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" + '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - __Ahmed-Falol et Al vs. Henry__ - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. + '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - __Michael Siminitus v ["Mark Champagne"]__. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which Mr Champagne disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees.
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[http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. - '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - Laabs v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that Senate Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that Senate cannot compel the Court to drop a case. - '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - Van Schoelandt v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that the closed session which the ASUCD Senate had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote Senate Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ASUCD Constitution or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). - '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - Nanakul v. SGAO - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of Senate Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modelled after the US Federal Gov't after all) would have the executive office (the ASUCD President) responsible for carrying out legislation, but SGAO is named as the Defendant, and ASUCD tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major Focus campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm.	+ '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - __Van Schoelandt v. Leathers__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - __Van Schoelandt v. Leathers__. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - __Harney v. Leathers__. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ASUCD Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the Senate retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. + '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - __Laabs v. ["The California Aggie"]__. Regarding a bylaw that states that ASUCD webpages must be hosted on the ASUCD server and approved by ASUCD unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ASUCD unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. + '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - __Laabs v. The ASUCD Senate__ - Alleging that Senate Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that Senate cannot compel the Court to drop a case. + '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - __Van Schoelandt v. The ASUCD Senate__ - Alleging that the closed session which the ASUCD Senate had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote Senate Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ASUCD Constitution or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents). + '''Case # 32''' - Winter 2006 - __Nanakul v. SGAO__ - Alleging that the "Student Bill of Rights," passed in Winter 2004, is not available online or in physical form, in violation of Senate Bill # 48 (2003), which requires legislation be made available online. The more interesting question in this case is responsibility for carrying out legislation: American tradition (ASUCD is modelled after the US Federal Gov't after all) would have the executive office (the ASUCD President) responsible for carrying out legislation, but SGAO is named as the Defendant, and ASUCD tradition has had the author of legislation bear the responsibility for its execution (author of Bill of Rights unknown at this time, but it was a major Focus campaign plank). [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc Accepted], hearing scheduled for 02/28/06, 7:10, MU Mee Rm. + '''Case # 33''' - Fall 2006 - __Laabs vs ASUCD Senate__ - Case [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor33-02cb-cert.doc declined] by the Court. + '''Case # 34''' - Fall 2006 - __Savaree-Ruess vs Carnes et Al__ - Accepted, hearing held. See Current Business above. - Regarding the definition of "parties" to a closed session. + '''Case # 35''' - Fall 2006 - __Laabs vs Holloway__ - [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor35-01-certiorari.doc + Accepted], consideration pending the completion of Case 34. - Regarding the appointment of [Steven Ostrowski] to an Academic Senate committee.

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KrisFricke — 2006-12-06 17:04:28

Clarifying that Laabs himself is providing the snacks. Scoop not on us.

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BrentLaabs — 2006-12-06 16:23:26

free snacks at the tonight's court meeting

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KrisFricke — 2006-12-05 21:02:53

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KrisFricke — 2006-12-05 20:50:54

Location Change for Tomorrow's Case 34 Hearing

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KrisFricke — 2006-12-04 14:26:28

Coady now Vice Chief

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KrisFricke — 2006-11-29 17:02:09

Hearing Postponed Till Nextweek, BTW. Other updates on current business

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KrisFricke — 2006-11-09 14:52:50

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- Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to missplace them and Chief Justice Fricke's computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that.[[BR]]	+ Many cases appear to be lost to the sands of time, as ["SGAO"] tends to missplace them and Chief Justice Fricke's computer crashed at the beginning of Fall 2003 and lost all court documents on it previous to that.
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- '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author"[[BR]] - '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions.[[BR]] - '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - Michael Siminitus v ["Mark Champagne"]. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which Mr Champagne disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees.[[BR]] - '''Case # 25''' - Spring 2004 - Filed a day after the above, it involved essentially the same Plaintiffs and Defendants. It was discussed at the same special hearing as above and involved in the same opinion. See above.[[BR]] - '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - Van Schoelandt v. Leathers. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28[[BR]] - '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - Van Schoelandt v. Leathers. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28[[BR]] - '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - Harney v. Leathers. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ASUCD Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the Senate retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates.[[BR]] - '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - Laabs v. ["The California Aggie"]. Regarding a bylaw that states that ASUCD webpages must be hosted on the ASUCD server and approved by ASUCD unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ASUCD unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires.[[BR]] - '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - Laabs v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that Senate Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that Senate cannot compel the Court to drop a case.[[BR]] - '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - Van Schoelandt v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that the closed session which the ASUCD Senate had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote Senate Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ASUCD Constitution or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents).[[BR]]	+ '''["ASUCD Court Case 22" Case # 22]''' - Fall 2003 - Regarding the definition and use of the term "co-author" + '''["ASUCD Court Case 23" Case # 23]''' - Winter 2004 - Regarding notification to commissioners of their terms, and the terms of commissioners filling vacated positions. + '''Case # 24''' - Spring 2004 - Michael Siminitus v ["Mark Champagne"]. Eventually dismissed after a special hearing on jurisdiction, at which Mr Champagne disputed court jurisdiction over him. This resulted in [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor24-02c.doc this opinion], wherein the Court found it in fact did not have jurisdiction over career employees. + '''Case # 25''' - Spring 2004 - Filed a day after the above, it involved essentially the same Plaintiffs and Defendants. It was discussed at the same special hearing as above and involved in the same opinion. See above. + '''Case # 26''' - Fall 2005 - Van Schoelandt v. Leathers. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 27''' - Fall 2005 - Van Schoelandt v. Leathers. Retracted by plaintiff before the Court could consider it. See Case # 28 + '''Case # 28''' - Fall 2005 - Harney v. Leathers. Regarding the ["Fall 2005 ASUCD Election/Unqualified Candidates Scandal" Unqualified Candidates Scandal]. Case was [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor28-01.doc accepted], but the Senate retroactively changed the bylaws so that the candidates never were potentially in violation of them, thus negating the case, and sat the candidates. + '''Case # 29''' - Fall 2005 - Laabs v. ["The California Aggie"]. Regarding a bylaw that states that ASUCD webpages must be hosted on the ASUCD server and approved by ASUCD unit Media Link; and the fact that the California Aggie, an ASUCD unit, is allegedly in violation of both these conditions. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/spmct/supcor29-01.doc Accepted], a hearing was held on 02/07/06. On 02/21/06 the [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor29-04c.doc official opinion] was released. The court sided with Laabs and ruled that The Aggie was in violation of the bylaw. The court deferred to the ["Campus Media Board"] until the contract expires. + '''Case # 30''' - Winter 2006 - Laabs v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that Senate Bill # 36 (2006) (the retroactive one) violates separation of powers because it mandates that cases which have been effected by retroactive legislation be immediately dropped, and Plaintiff alleges that Senate cannot compel the Court to drop a case. + '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - Van Schoelandt v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that the closed session which the ASUCD Senate had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote Senate Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ASUCD Constitution or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents).
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KevinPowers — 2006-07-17 03:52:10

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KevinPowers — 2006-07-17 03:49:24

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KrisFricke — 2006-05-26 19:45:17

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- If one feels that an ASUCD officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ASUCD legislation is not consistance with existent ASUCD bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). SGAO should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. - The Court meets at 6:30pm on Tuesdays in the ASUCD Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"] during this the Winter quarter of 2006. It is subject to change every quarter however.	+ If one feels that an ASUCD officer is not conducting their job correctly, or ASUCD legislation is not consistance with existent ASUCD bylaws, or other similar claim, they may file a complaint with ["SGAO"], who shall have on hand a complaint form (in the past they've sometimes claimed not to have one, in which case one should just answer the questions found in Section 402(2) of the [http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/gov/docs/ Judicial Codes]). SGAO should get it to the Court and you'll hear from the Court with further instructions when they've decided whether or not to take the case. The Court meets at 6:30pm on Tuesdays in the ASUCD Conference Room, 3rd Floor ["MU"] during this the Winter quarter of 2006. It is subject to change every quarter however.
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KrisFricke — 2006-05-19 19:11:03

Members in, members out, we've got more vacancies!

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KevinPowers — 2006-05-18 23:36:04

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- The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ASUCD case in arguing a future one.	+ The availability of opinions is important however. Reading them, one can understand what kind of things constitute a case, and more importantly, the Court would probably be very impressed if someone cited precedent from a previous ASUCD case in arguing a future one.
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BrentLaabs — 2006-04-28 00:16:48

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	+ ------ + Your order struck a code that has already been nullified by the creation of the ASUCD Bylaws. The code I believe you are looking for is 904A: + {{{ + 904. Closed Sessions + + A. The ASUCD Senate may move into a closed session during a regular + meeting of the ASUCD Senate for any reason by a majority vote of the entire ASUCD + Senate. The ASUCD Senate may not move into a closed session during a regular + meeting for the purposes of discussing a previously approved/hired ASUCD employee + or appointee, unless it is in accordance with the "Personnel Matters" section below. + }}}

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PhilipNeustrom — 2006-04-28 00:00:39

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-27 21:06:21

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JonathonLeathers — 2006-04-27 19:55:35

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PhilipNeustrom — 2006-04-27 19:39:52

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	+ ------ + ''2006-04-27 20:39:52'' [[nbsp]] It would be wise to include summaries of these court rulings so that we don't just know "well the opinion was released." --["PhilipNeustrom"]

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-27 19:22:49

Opinion released!

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-27 16:26:22

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-27 16:25:40

Van Schoelandt v Senate Opinion to be released during Senate today!

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JillWeinstein — 2006-04-20 15:26:38

is it joe or tim? i think i fixed this

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- Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simulteniously appointed (Coady - Reed were simultenious). The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absense of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is Tim Coady. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority.	+ Other than the Chief Justice, the above lists Justices in descending order of time on the Court, and alphabetically where simulteniously appointed (Coady - Reed were simultenious). The Vice Chief Justice, as one can imagine, presides in the absense of the Chief Justice. They are elected quarterly, currently the Vice Chief Justice is Joe Harney. After the Vice Chief Justice, precedence follows in order of seniority.

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BrentLaabs — 2006-04-20 14:19:43

Revert to version dated 2006-04-20 13:54:29.

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BrentLaabs — 2006-04-20 14:13:09

making roll call for kris fricke harder

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-20 13:54:29

going off air ~3pm ...I kid I kid

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- '''Case # 31''' Had a hearing on 04/18/06, 9:15pm, MU Garrison Rm. Briefs from the respective parties have been filed, the plaintiff brief can be found [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-02-brfptf.doc here], and the defence brief [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-03-brfdef.doc here]. The minutes from the hearing can be found [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-04b-minutes.doc here]. Amicus curiae opinions are welcome. Writer of the best amicus brief gets to be president of the ASUCD Bar Association for a week! (email to kfricke@yolo.courts.ca.gov) The Court is currently deliberating	+ '''Case # 31''' [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Accepted] on 02/21/06. Had a hearing on 04/18/06, 9:15pm, MU Garrison Rm. Briefs from the respective parties have been filed, the plaintiff brief can be found [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-02-brfptf.doc here], and the defence brief [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-03-brfdef.doc here]. The minutes from the hearing can be found [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-04b-minutes.doc here]. Amicus curiae opinions are welcome. Writer of the best amicus brief gets to be president of the ASUCD Bar Association for a week! (email to kfricke@yolo.courts.ca.gov) The Court is currently deliberating.
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- '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - Van Schoelandt v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that the closed session which the ASUCD Senate had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote Senate Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ASUCD Constitution or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution.[[BR]]	+ '''Case # 31''' - Winter 2006 - Van Schoelandt v. The ASUCD Senate - Alleging that the closed session which the ASUCD Senate had on January 12th, 2006, in which they wrote Senate Bill # 36 (2006) was not authorized by the ASUCD Constitution or bylaws and was in fact in violation of the constitution. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor31-01-certiorari.doc Writ of certiorari] (see Current Business for other documents).[[BR]]

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-20 13:26:06

Minutes up, Harney now Vice Chief

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-19 01:23:48

Thanks Brent for adding Justice Aguilera twice & messing up my roll call d=

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MaxMikalonis — 2006-04-18 20:09:21

Wrong Case URL--Changed

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-18 18:01:25

briefs online, linked. hearing tonight. you know you're excited.

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-18 15:08:27

minor

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KrisFricke — 2006-04-18 15:07:46

Hearing tonight, 9:15pm, Van Schoelandt v ASUCD Senate

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- '''Case # 32''' Has been [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc accepted], and a hearing has been set for 02/28/06, 7:10pm, MU Garrison Rm. [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-02-brfptf.doc Plaintiff] & [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-03-brfdef.doc Defence] briefs have been filed (Note Defence cites Case 24, a link to which can be found below). Amicus curiae opinions are welcome. Writer of the best amicus brief gets to be president of the ASUCD Bar Association for a week! (email to krfricke@ucdavis.edu (preferable), or hand in at beginning of hearing) - - '''Cases # 30-31''' are pending a decision on acceptence. Their consideration was on the agenda for 02/21/06, and within the next 12 hours the Court should issue [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_certiorari#United_States_law formal statements] on the status of these cases. Once accepted, they will be queued for consideration and a hearing date set for the first one in the queue (A decision can't be put off forever though -- if there is no case pending, the Court will have ten days to accept and have a hearing for a case, or whatever is before it will have to be rejected). See "[http://www.daviswiki.org/ASUCD_Court#head-eccd8c22c73648e08b29c3f6bd2780570e754370 cases]" below for more on these cases.	+ '''Case # 31''' Has been [http://www.geocities.com/winged_snail/dcmnt/supcor32-01-certiorari.doc accepted], and a hearing has been set for 04/18/06, 9:15pm, MU Smith Rm. Briefs from the respective parties are available in SGAO. Amicus curiae opinions are welcome. Writer of the best amicus brief gets to be president of the ASUCD Bar Association for a week! (email to kfricke@yolo.courts.ca.gov (preferable), or hand in at beginning of hearing)