on 4/6/02 1:41 PM, Gerri Dueringer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My understanding is that the Club has proxy voting because it is > incorportated in the State of Kentucky where it is law that proxy voting must > be allowed.
There was a legal decision regarding the proxy voting issue in 1973...or thereabouts. Proxy voting was no longer allowed. the club took about 10 years to pay off the legal expenses for that, including expenses of the 5 people (members) who successfully brought suit in the first place. Betty Deemer and Elizabeth Spalding took a lawyer to a meeting of the Board of the Canadian Kennel club in 1986 to protest the CKC's no longer "recognizing" American-bred Cavaliers. The CKCSCUSA paid about $1500 to that lawyer. The result...CKC's Board of Directors voted no longer recognized American-bred Cavaliers. Between 1991 and 1993, CKCSCUSA paid it's legal representatives around $35,000.00 in fees so they could be told they could not stop AKC from registering Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. The CKCSCUSA does not, by its by-laws, conduct its business/meetings under Roberts Rules of Parliamentary Procedure, either. If someone were to bother spending $30,000.00 to intiate the litigation required to overturn the (self-serving) rules under which the CKCSCUSA has operated in the past 9 years, CKCSCUSA's registry would be required by law to accept the AKC-only Cavaliers, because, as it has been told by it's legal advisors twice before, the club would be guilty of violating of "restraint of trade" laws of the USA. What the club's leaders have failed to acknowledge to its membership and the majority of its membership at large has failed to understand is that its registry is separate from its membership priviledges. Someone will come along someday soon and feel this issue is important enough to initiate legal proceedings against CKCSCUSA. Meanwhile, life goes on in the real world for many of us. Judy Gates ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
