[blml] Tie me kangaroo court, sport [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Robert Geller]

Eric Landau writes:
>ISTM that the heart of the issue here is whether the legal auction to 
>that point is one of those "things [that] can never be UI".  The ABF 
>seems to think so, and I would agree, but concede that the Law could be 
>read in such a way that "things [that] can never be UI" do not exist.
  (1) Bids out of turn and insufficient bids are infractions, and the laws contain
provisions for delaing with them.  
  (2) It is not authorized by the laws to warn your partner before he/she
is about to make an insufficient bid or bid out of turn.   Information from
such an "extraneous action" is thus UI.


Tim West-Meads writes:
>>In an ideal world (at least IMO) there would be no BOOTs/LOOTs/IBs etc
>>(as when playing on-line).  Anything (almost) which prevents such
>>infractions in f2f bridge is thus a good thing.
Directors, appeals committees, and laws commissions have to make
rulings based on the laws and standing interpretations thereof issued
by higher bodeis (e.g. WBFLC) as they now are.    It's perfectly reasonable
to debate how things ought to be, but those opinions shouldn't be
allowed to affect rulings or appeals.   

 -Bob

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Robert (Bob) Geller,     Tokyo, Japan        geller at nifty.com