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The Report On Lengthy Litigation

By Ral315, 31 October 2005

The Arbitration Committee closed three cases this week.

Rainbowwarrior1977

A case against Rainbowwarrior1977 has closed, affirming the indefinite ban imposed by Redwolf24 in September.

DotSix

A case against DotSix has closed. DotSix was banned for one year. The Arbitration Committee cited DotSix's constant edit-warring, lack of positive edits, and "malicious comments" on user talk pages.

Keetoowah

A case against Keetoowah has closed. Keetoowah was warned against making legal threats, and put on personal attack parole.

Stevertigo case reopened

A case against Stevertigo for inappropriate use of administrative powers has been re-opened. Stevertigo was originally ordered to reaffirm his adminship at RfA; however, after many community members viewed the process of community de-adminship as wrong, the case was returned to the ArbCom. The dispute regarded Stevertigo's violation of the three-revert rule, and subsequently unblocking himself a number of times.

Other cases

A case was accepted this week against Copperchair. It is in the evidence phase.

A request against Silverback has received 5 "accept" votes. A minimum of 4 votes is needed for arbitration cases to move forward.

Other cases against Ultramarine (user page), Maoririder (user page), numerous editors on Bogdanov Affair, REX (user page), Rangerdude (user page), numerous editors on Ted Kennedy, numerous editors on Polygamy, Lightbringer (user page), and Jguk (user page) are in the evidence phase.

Cases against Zephram Stark (user page), DreamGuy (user page), Everyking (user page), 12.144.5.2 (user page, a.k.a. Louis Epstein), BigDaddy777 (user page), Instantnood (user page), and Stevertigo (user page) are in the voting phase.

A motion to close is on the table in the case against Onefortyone (user page).

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