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BARRED IN FLORIDA
Posted By: mamabear In Response To: BARRED IN FLORIDA (Bob Koca)
Date: Tuesday, 26 August 2008, at 7:53 p.m.
This is an example of what they mean by "hard cases make bad law." As a general matter, a TD must continue to be able to bar someone without a stated cause. Otherwise, someone who is well-known to be a dice mechanic, cheat, extremely rude, obscene or perhaps even a violent person, whatever, can ask why they were barred, then sue the TD for slander. This would be especially true if that TD told other TDs, and they also barred him, because he'd have more damages to assert he had incurred.
The TD would then be in a bad position legally and financially, since even with the truth on his side, he'd have a hard time convincing a judge unfamiliar with backgammon and its community. By this I mean that the judge would see the possibility that a group of people could red-dog a player they disliked with false accusations, and get that person barred wrongly. He might not understand that the majority of players whose opinions would count at all with the TDs, value their own reputations enough not to participate in such an action, regardless of how they feel about the player in question. In other words, the backgammon community has more integrity on the whole than, say, politics or a typical high school.
Ray's situation is a hard case, because what he did was more a social gaffe than anything else, IMHO anyway. It also may actually get patched in time for Baltimore, who knows? (Ray, would you actually go to Baltimore this year if you could?)
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