Article XI.  The Judicial Panel

Section 6. The rules shall provide, among other things, that no member of the Judicial Panel shall participate in any manner in the decision in any case arising in a local of which the Judicial Panel member is or was a member or, in cases originating at the council level, of the council with which such local is affiliated and, further, that no Judicial Panel member shall discuss such a case with any other member of the Panel unless it be as a witness under oath. The chair of the judicial panel shall recuse him/her self from any cases relating to a local or council in which they are or were members. In such cases the president shall appoint an acting chair of the judicial panel to deal with all aspects of the case.

SUBMITTED BY: Roy Stone, President and Delegate
 Ruth Seid, Recording Secretary and Delegate
 AFSCME Local 2626, Council 36
 California