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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
1) your IAABO state interpreter is the person responsible for issuing official FED rulings for your state, similar to Kurt ? in Illinois. Right?  |
No. The FED is responsible for issuing FED rulings. Our state interpreter (
any state interpreter) is there to make rulings where there is no definitive ruling from the FED. IAABO is not a rules-making organization. If my state interpreter intentionally gave me a ruling contradictory to the FED, that would make my state association a rules-making organization; and he's not authorized to do that.
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2) If your state interpreter issued a ruling, you wouldn't follow that ruling because you personally disagreed with it?
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That's absolutely not correct. However, if my state interpreter knowingly gave me a ruling that was contradicted by a FED ruling, I would disregard the his ruling. If he told me that a blarge was to be administered by yielding the call to the official who primary responsibilty, I would try to correct him by pointing out the correct FED interp. If he said, "I know, but I hate that ruling, so this is how we're going to do it in MA", I would tell him flat out that's not how we're doing it in Springfield.
I get my training from IAABO. I get my rules from the FED.