The Having Game/Court proposal

[WIP Proposal]

Appendment

The Court is an organization. The Court has a set of responsibilities, which may be expanded via appendments. The Court must follow Court Procedure, including in deciding its members. The Court procedure shall be defined by the Council initially. Then, according to Court procedure, the Court procedures may be amended, iff the Council decides to endorse this amendment.

• Iff two parties are in disagreement of the interpretation of the Laws or the Constitution, they may submit a case to the Court. Pertinent to the particular case, the Court shall establish an interpretation, within the letter of the Laws and the Constitution. The Court may limit which cases are accepted according to Procudures.

Court Procedures

1. A Judge is a person who is a member of the Court. There must at all times be at least 1 Judge.
2. If at any time there are fewer than 2 Judges, then the Council may appoint a Judge of their choosing.
3. Given the consent of two people who are not Judges nor members of the Council, as well as >50% of the current Judges, a new Judge may be appointed.
4. When a case is to be tried in a Court, one Judge is assigned to it. Which Judge is assigned to the case may be decided arbitrarily by the Court.
5. If a Judge is a party to the dispute, they may not preside over its case.
6. A case pertaining to a Court decision or a dispute previously deliberated by the Court is known as an appeal. A case may be rejected if it is an excessive appeal.
7. A case must be deliberated as follows:
   1. The Judge hears a description of the dispute from each party. The Judge drafts a docket, which is a short but comprehensive description of the dispute, containing all necessary background information required for a person unfamiliar with the Having Game to understand all relevant aspects of the dispute, as well as a finite set of outcomes for the case.
   2. The Judge presents the docket to the parties. If any party finds that it is unsatisfactory, they may request revisions, but if the Judge finds that they are wasting the Court's time, the docket is considered to be sufficient as-is.
   3. An outsider is a person who is uninvolved in the Having Game. The Court must solicit those involved with the Having Game but not a party to the case to poll outsiders, presenting each the docket and requesting that they select a particular interpretation.
      • The outsider must not be prompted or influenced to choose any particular answer.
      • The relation of the outsider to the poller must be disclosed.
      • The outsider's response must be recorded exactly, ideally with any commentary they considered relevant.
   4. The Judge must allow a sufficient amount of time to collect responses. The Judge must consider all responses, unless it is found that a response was not collected following Court Procedures, or the Judge considers the outsider to have a conflict of interest. The outcome which has the majority support among pollees is selected. If there is a tie, the Judge shall break it.
8. The Court Procedures shall be amended upon the agreement of >50% of members of the Court and the fulfillment of the requirements defined by Law. If the Court Procedures are amended during a case, the case follows the Procedures as they were defined when the case was accepted by the Court.