I submit the following proposals. -Aris --- Title: Impossibility Defense Adoption index: 2.0 Author: Aris Co-author(s):
Amend 2531, "Defendant's Rights", by adding the following after item (2) of the second numbered list: (3) it attempts to levy a fine on a person for failure to take an action that e, through no fault of eir own, COULD NOT have performed; (4) it attempts to levy a fine on a person for conduct that e, through no fault of eir own, was obliged to undertake by a rule of equal or greater power to the one e violated; and renumbering the list accordingly. --- Title: Impracticability Defense Adoption index: 2.0 Author: Aris Co-author(s): Amend 2531, "Defendant's Rights", by adding the following to the second numbered list as a new item immediately before the item beginning "it attempts to levy a fine with a value": "it attempts to levy a fine on a person taking an action or inaction e could not have avoided when exercising the highest reasonably possible standard of care;"