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To Sports Organizations and Concerned Persons
PENDING NEW LAWSUIT FILING AGAINST DEAF SPORTS LEADERS-ANARCHISTS AT TAS/CAS
Below is a draft copy of another and new lawsuit filing called Statement of Claim.
This Statement of Claim names four persons in the legal action: Mr. Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas as plaintiff and Mr. Jerald Jordan, Dr. Donalda Ammons and Mr. John Lovett as defendants.
This Statement of Claim is going to be filed with the Lausanne, Switzerland-based Tribunal Arbitral du Sport or Court of Arbitration for Sport ( in brief, "TAS/CAS" )
www.tas-cas.org
The other lawsuit action - Mr. Pinkhasov Pinchas against Mr. Jordan and Dr. Ammons ( USA District Court for the District of Maryland, Civil Action Number WMN-03-857 ) - filed at Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the "home state" of Mr. Jordan and Dr. Ammons, was closed recently. One of the main reasons of this lawsuit's closure was that "as a general rule, courts will not interfere with the internal affairs of a voluntary membership organization" such as the CISS, and that "whether the CISS violated its internal rules is not simply a question for this Court (that is, USA District Court for the District of Maryland ) to determine."
343 CISS RULE VIOLATIONS
As you may notice throughout the contents of the Statement of Claim ( Paragraph 14 through 127 ) that among the allegations are massive rule violations in the CISS legal system by the so-called "successful, law-abiding, competent "professionals" and celebrated elite CISS officials" - Mr. Jordan, Dr. Ammons and Mr. Lovett.
It is alleged that a total of 343 rule violations in the CISS Constitution, Deaflympic Games Regulations and Deaf World Championship Regulations were committed by Mr. Jordan, Dr. Ammons and Mr. Lovett between May, 2000 and July, 2003!
This year alone, that is, in the span of just six months ( between February and July, 2003 ) Mr. Jordan, Dr. Ammons and Mr. Lovett, by ineptly, irresponsibly, inefficiently and in their self-interest handling 54 different CISS-related cases, broke an aggregate record of 127 rule violations!
"WHO IS THE CISS PERSONA-NON-GRATA?"
The Statement of Claim also deals with its prime issue of "Who is the CISS Persona-Non-Grata?"
Throughout 2002 and 2003, Mr. Jordan, Dr. Ammons and Mr. Lovett, have publicly been labeling Mr. Pinkhasov Pinchas as the "CISS-Persona-Non-Grata!"
However, because of the clear violation of various CISS Constitution rules, these three persons since April 1, 2000 and to this day are still holding the elective and/or appointed office positions in the CISS ILLEGALLY: Mr. Lovett as the CISS President and Member of the CISS Legal Commission, Dr. Ammons as the CISS Secretary General and Member of the CISS Legal Commssion and Mr. Jordan as the Member of the CISS Legal Commission.
Consequently, it is Mr. Pinkhasov Pinchas' strong position and irrefutable argument that Mr. Lovett, Dr. Ammons and Mr. Jordan as the still unconstitutionally-elected and/or appointed CISS officials as well as the reputed abusers of the legal system of the CISS are themselves the ones who are the "CISS Personas-Non-Grata" ( not Mr. Pinkhasov Pinchas )!
As you may now see and realize that the CISS, the world's oldest sports organization among the disabled people, is still led and administered by those persons who continue to conduct their business in the manners of lawlessness and disorder, cronyism and autocracy, stagnation and anarchism!
WILL DEAF LEADERS-ANARCHISTS JORDAN, AMMONS AND LOVETT AGREE TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF TAS/CAS? YES OR NO?
Please be advised that the Statement of Claim will be submitted to TAS/CAS - a well respected and neutral international judicial sports organization - ONLY in the event both opposing parties mutually and in good faith agree to accept to submit to the full jurisdiction of TAS/CAS.
Mr. Pinkhasov Pinchas has already fully and unequivocally agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of TAS/CAS, while Mr. Jordan, Dr. Ammons and Mr. Lovett have not done so yet.
Thus, Mr. Jordan, Dr. Ammons and Mr. Lovett as the long-time advocates and fighters for equal and just rights of the deaf athletes worldwide, must still decide on whether they three will - via their deeds, not words - genuinely accept, respect and recognize the existence of TAS/CAS by agreeing to arbitrate the Statement of Claim under the full jurisdiction of this specialized international sports dispute court in Lausanne.
In the meantime, we would like to express our thanks to many organizations and persons for supplying information which enabled Mr. Pinkhasov Pinchas to compile the list of CISS rule violations, including their verification of facts.
www.deafsportlawsuit.com
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