--- Judith Gates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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.
Judy,
I think what you say here is the most coherent,
sound argument I have heard yet on this issue. May
others provide equally sound arguments.
Robin McLeod (and Teddy)
Minnesota (our snow melted today, and now Teddy is
affectionately known as MudDog!)
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