Actually the Arbitration committee at Wikipedia has at time accepted cases but failed to come to a decision. No one has objected to that outcome. (Actually courts have ways of shedding cases too).
Fred
From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:44:25 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Blocking policy
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
But as with questions of whether judges in wider society can (or should) change policy, it's not so easy often to draw the line between "following the law" and "making the law". This is particularly true when there are issues of interpretation and application.
Exactly. Judges become seized of a case and MUST make a decision based on the facts and the available law. Politicians have the luxury of waiting until the stars are right before they do something.
Ec