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Presents Appeals at the 1996 Summer NABC Cast Joan Gerard . as the Chairman Alan LeBendig & Peggy Sutherlin . as the Co-Chairmen And the members of the NABC Appeals Committee . as Themselves With Your Editors and Hosts Eric & Rich Copyright © 1996 by ACBL. Kokish Colker All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system—without the written permission of a copyright owner; except that short passages may be quoted without written permission if for the purpose of review. CONTENTS Introduction ........................................................... iii Forward ............................................................... v The Expert Panel....................................................... vii Cases ................................................................. 1 Closing Remarks From the Expert Panelists................................. 147 Closing Remarks From the Editors........................................ 151 A Blueprint for Appeals................................................. 153 The Panel’s Director and Committee Ratings ................................ 157 NABC Appeals Committee .............................................. 158 i ii INTRODUCTION Have you heard the news?? The Philadelphia Story has made the #1 Best Seller List for the 5th straight week . To get serious, I want to thank Eric and Richard for putting together an Appeals Book that was not only informative but interesting to read. I know there are a few people who have made some constructive criticisms, but for the most part we have had nothing but rave reviews. Commentators are clamoring to write for the book, and readers are carrying this book along with the ACBL Bulletin in their back pockets to be sure they have it always available. I feel certain that the editors of the various publications that we have sent The Philadelphia Story to will review it favorably, and copies have also been bought by the World Bridge Federation for distribution to all the countries. We have had a smash hit with a rather mundane subject. I think that our Appeals Committees are working towards becoming more professional. We seem to have more people willing to serve a bit more often and to try to work with our chairpeople in attempting to reach a consensus. Scribes are working harder to report completely and accurately. This does not happen without a great deal of dedication. Special thanks not only must be given to Eric and Richard, but to Alan and Peggy, Peter Mollemet and Brian Moran as well as many, many others too numerous to mention. But trust me, you are not going unnoticed. Hopefully, the players who bring us all our work appreciate our efforts. They can show us how much they appreciate us by trying to understand that many of their protests should not even be heard. But that too will come in time. Perhaps enough players will appreciate our new Classic Bridge Game where there are no appeals. I know we all hope so. It will surely be better for our game if problems can be solved at the table instead of the committee room. Joan Levy Gerard, Chairman iii iv FOREWORD The appeals process at NABCs continues to improve, in part, we can dare to hope, due to the publication of appeals cases in the Daily Bulletin and the follow-up analysis by expert panelists in these casebooks. But at times change can be slow and frustrating. A number of appeal-related issues continue to require development and/or standardization of their procedures. These include: the role of procedural penalties; the conditions for judging an appeal to be “substantially without merit;” policies for dealing with cases involving lesser-skilled (non-Flight A) players; the integration of Active Ethicals into the high-level game; procedures for dealing with hesitations at the table; special procedures for tempo- sensitive situations during the auction; more effective bidding-screen and bidding-box procedures; the role of the screening process in dealing with meritless appeals; “restoring equity” and the adjudication process; policies for balancing “the obligation to Alert and fully disclose partnership methods,” and “the responsibility of players to exhaust all reasonable means of seeking information they require from their opponents;” avoiding abuse of the judicial process; the criteria for when a call or play by a non-offender subsequent to an infraction will jeopardize the non-offenders’ rights to redress. The thirty- three cases published here raise concerns involving many of these issues. We will make our own recommendations regarding each of them, and have included a “Blueprint” for Appeals which appears in our Closing Remarks. We invite you to join us in actively exploring ways to resolve these and other isues as we move ahead. Talk to us. Give us feedback about our recommendations. Share with us your own solutions. Help us to identify other problem areas. Let’s actively work on improving the appeal process, and do so as expeditiously as possible. As in the previous casebook, we’ve asked our panelists to rate each Directors’ ruling and each Committee’s decision. While not every panelist rated every case (just as every panelist didn’t comment on every case), most did. The two ratings (averaged over the panelists) are presented after each write-up, expressed as percentages. These ratings also appear in a summary table near the end of the casebook for all thirty-three cases, for handy reference. We wish to thank all of the hard-working people without whose efforts this casebook would not have been possible. The scribes and Committee chairs who labored in Miami to get the details of each case down on paper for us to publish (we’re pretty sure the cattle prod marks will heal, with minimal scarring); our esteemed panelists, who graciously undertook the arduous task of commenting on the thirty-three cases from Miami for nothing more than the “glory” of seeing their names in lights, and receiving our praise (and occasional abuse) in these pages; Karen Lawrence (Hawkeye), whose long hours in Miami helped immeasurably with the editing process, and whose proofreading skills have saved up from many an embarrassing gaff; and last, but by no means least, Linda Weinstein, our irreplaceable (and irrepressible) executive editorial assistant (and gal Friday, as well as Monday, Tuesday, . .) who even gave up a golf game once to meet one of our deadlines (okay, so it was raining). Our sincere thanks to you all. Eric Kokish and Rich Colker, October, 1996 v vi THE EXPERT PANEL Alan LeBendig, 48, was born in Cleveland. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his longtime companion Suzanne Trull. He has a 23 year old son, Marc, who is a Senior at Karen Allison, ageless, was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brooklyn College. She UCLA. He is the co-owner of the Barrington Bridge Club. His hobbies include playing currently lives in Jersey City, NJ, with her two cats, Stella and Blanche. A former options Blackjack and surfing the Internet, and attending Dodger games. Alan has been Co- trader, Karen is currently a bridge teacher and writer. When she isn’t “catting” around she Chairman of the National Appeals Committee since 1988. He is proudest of his second enjoys traveling, reading, the theater and concerts. She is a Vice-Chairman of the National place finish in the 1993 Washington Life Master’s Pairs and winning the 1993 Seattle Appeals Committee, has served on the National Laws Commission since 1982, and has North American Swiss Teams. worked on several revisions of both the Laws of Contract and of Rubber Bridge. Karen is proudest of her silver medal for the Womens' Teams in Albuquerque in 1994 and winning Chip Martel, 43, was born in Ithaca, New York. He is Department Chair and Professor of the CNTC and representing Canada in the Open Teams Olympiad in Monte Carlo in Computer Science at the University of CA at Davis, and currently resides in Davis, CA, 1976. with his wife Jan. His other hobbies include reading and bicycling. Chip is a member of the ACBL National Laws Commission, the current Drafting Committee for the new laws, Bart Bramley, 48, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. He grew up in Connecticut and and the ACBL Competition and Conventions Committee. He is proudest of his four Boston and is a graduate of MIT. He currently resides in Chicago with his longtime World Championships, current ranking of fifth in the world, and seventeen National companion Judy Wadas. He is a stock options trader at the CBOE. Bart is a sports fan Championships. He was also the captain and coach of our only world championship (especially baseball and specifically the NY Yankees), a golf enthusiast, enjoys word Junior team, as well as for the Junior team which won a bronze medal. games and has been a Deadhead for many years. He is proudest of his 1989 Reno Vanderbilt win and his participation in the 1991 Bermuda Bowl. He is captain of the 1996 Mike Passell, 49, was born in Yonkers, New York. He currently resides in Dallas, Texas U.S. Olympiad team. He also credits Ken Lebensold as an essential influence in his with his wife Nancy and his 14 year old daughter, Jennifer. Mike is a Professional Bridge bridge development. Player who also enjoys movies, all sports and playing golf. Mike ranks #2 in all-time masterpoint holders. Among his many outstanding bridge accomplishments, he is Larry Cohen, 37, was born in New York. He is a graduate of SUNY at Albany. He proudest of his Bermuda Bowl win in 1979 and his victories in all four of the major currently resides in Little Falls, New Jersey. He is a Bridge Professional and author of NABC team events. two books that are both best sellers: To Bid or Not To Bid and Following the Law.

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