[blml] The Rubaiyat of Law 58B2 [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[David Grabiner]

(Intending to lead the S2 from SQ32, dropping the SQ and S2 together, and 
choosing to play the SQ)

> Law 50B:

> "A single card below the rank of an honour
> and exposed inadvertently (as in playing
> two cards to a trick, or in dropping a
> card accidentally) becomes a minor
> penalty card ....."

> The Director rules that your deuce of
> spades is a major penalty card, not a
> minor penalty card.  The Director's
> reasoning is that because you originally
> intended to lead the deuce of spades, that
> card was not exposed inadvertently.
>
> You appeal to the National Authority.  How
> should the National Authority rule?

The S2 became exposed as the result of an inadvertent action; it was not 
deliberately played in the sense of the other examples of major penalty 
cards in L50B (lead out of turn or revoke retracted).  Consistent with the 
spirit of the Law, and the fact that the S2 had not been played at the time 
of the infraction, I rule that the S2 is a minor penalty card.