I think the issue that Jay raised is a serious one.
The scenario is that A brings an arbitration case against B, the committee looks at both sides of the dispute, then both A and B get penalties.
This is a clear violation of A's right to due process. Nobody should be penalised unless a case is brought against them (by the committee if they wish), it passes the initial voting as to whether the case should be heard, then there is a period of argumentation and collection of evidence specifically in relation to that person. This is not true in the case of A, since the voting and Evidence page argumentation is primarily in relation to B.
If the witnesses in a criminal trial are found to have committed crimes themselves, they are sceduled for their own trials. They are not given sentences by the original court. The same principle should hold here.
It is not enough to lump A and B together as defendants at the beginning, as that can still mean that A is put on trial due to the strength of the case against B.
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